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There are also examples of capitalism stifling technology, for example technology regarding cars and other machinary powered by alternative fuels.
What we will see is that scientists are free to expand and explore in all directions and not just those directions the profit motive leads them.
It is true that capitalism has given us huge technologicla advances... but to give your example of the Space Race... once the competition had been won, and now that Russia has pulled out altogether, we have seen that space technology has not really progressed a great deal since the 70's in very many area's - once the competive or profit motive dissappears, there is nothing to drive the technology.
In communism what will drive the technology is popular will and intellectuals having much more freedom.
Today, the scientist (in many countries at least) is negatively free to research what she wants (ie no one will stop her from doing it) but we aim to make her positively free to research in all directions - by funding research that isnt necessarily going to make microsoft more money, but which we believe can improve the lot of our society.
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