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You make all these sweeping claims, yet in Norway 37% of the population works in the public sector (compare with around 50% in Belarus and China), taxes are ver
by carlob 8y ago
You make all these sweeping claims, yet in Norway 37% of the population works in the public sector (compare with around 50% in Belarus and China), taxes are very high, and inequality is very low according to most measures.
Another point a Trotskyst might make is that Communism can only succeed if adopted all over the world. I don't think that a country like Cuba makes for a good data point on anything except embargoes.
- skookumchuck 8y agoNorway is well-funded by their oil. > if adopted all over the world Not a chance.
- leetcrew 8y agoif the success of your political system depends on there being literally no alternatives to it elsewhere in the world, doesn't that suggest that something might be wrong with it?
- SaintGhurka 8y ago"I don't think that a country like Cuba makes for a good data point on anything except embargoes." Neither is Norway a good data point from which we can extrapolate the viability of Communism. Norway has a population of 5.5 million - smaller than the San Francisco Bay Area. It's also swimming in oil money. It's probably easier to motivate people to work for the benefit of the whole community if the community is defined as a small number of people with whom you share a culture and background and live close to you. Maybe that's why communism works occasionally on communes, but anything more expansive requires the brutal application of force to keep people in line.
- skookumchuck 8y agoThe voluntary ones implode within a year or two as the participants get fed up and leave.
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