That does raise the interesting question about the relationship between organisations an their own variable levels of adaptable system and ideology. MLs are quite competent at obtaining power; after all they have this Promethean sense of history and collectivist discipline. However, once they obtain it, they're absolutely useless at managing an organisation towards growth, because of their ideological blinkers.
On a wider scale, we've seen how ideological growth ended in millions of deaths (e.g., the forced collectivisation process in the USSR, or the Great Leap Forward in China). In contrast the Brezhnev stagnation seemed to be a safer bet. In other words, a slow and steady decline ending in a whimper.
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Date: 2012-10-02 11:40 pm (UTC)On a wider scale, we've seen how ideological growth ended in millions of deaths (e.g., the forced collectivisation process in the USSR, or the Great Leap Forward in China). In contrast the Brezhnev stagnation seemed to be a safer bet. In other words, a slow and steady decline ending in a whimper.