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You had not shared Chapter 6 before that I remember. I applaud your treatment of the socialist movement. Recognizing the diversity of the famously fractious movement is important. As a non-socialist you avoid the ideological axe grinding which many treatments of the topic devolve into. I've always disliked the characterization of the Soviet command economy as, "actually existing socialism". It certainly doesn't represent a social system which I would to live in.

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Fig trees. Would this be a picture of the one the gardener in yesterday's Gospel offered to cultivate for just one more year before it was cut down for not bearing fruit? :)

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It's a ficus. Not the kind of fig tree that bears the familiar fruit

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And Delong knows that, too. :)

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