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Originally Posted by Archaea
I disagree, I think wealth promotes moderation more than education because you can have a motivated educate populace a la Nazi Germany, which Iran is becoming.
Wealth, a vibrant middle class, and free access is liberating, not education alone, for China.
I see the madrasses as a bad thing, and secularization of Islam the best thing we can ever enjoy.
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Then what's your explanation for the fall of communism in the USSR?
You could just as easily argue that poverty promoted moderation in the case of the USSR, since perestroika was a supremely miserable, impoverished decade that led to the fall of the state religion (communism).