Serious answers only

Most of the East bloc countries were far less developed than Western Europe to start with.

Are you denying the massively positive effect that the Marshall Plan has on European economies? It was literally designed to accelerate economic development and recovery.

So if they won, there wouldn't be a whale left anymore, because we gotta kickstart?

I've got this business, it will develop into a great business, and all needs for that is your money and lots of it! It's the secret of investing, you just throw money at something -doesn't matter what- and then it grows!

What I'm denying is that the positive effects the Marshall Plan had on European economies (which weren't all positive at all) imply that those effects would have been present in every place where a comparable amount of funds and aid would have been invested in.

US AID as a form of patronage to keep them from switching sides.

But Eastern Europe actually grew faster than Western Europe for sometime the model really only started to stagnate in the late 70s/80s

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Which doesn't mean anything on itself, or you must believe that North Korea and Zimbabwe have a better economic system than Norway.

I thought the basic economics meme was just that, but the sort of illiteracy displayed here shows that marxists aren't merely ignorant, but also lack logical faculty.

oh look the ancap ends up displaying his sophistry for all to see when his arguments are even slightly challenged just like always

Even if we assume tthat arguement is incorrect, you never provided a rebutal, so fuck off

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