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What is labelled as communism doesn't always fail, see China, Venezuela, Cuba.
by soperj 13y ago
What is labelled as communism doesn't always fail, see China, Venezuela, Cuba.
- lostlogin 13y agoDoes anyone see them as really being communist? Some are a smidge closer than others I suppose. By the same measure, those that are labeled democracy have failed fairly often as well. And those that succeed are often just as far off the label as China is off its. How many democracies have a large turn out with anything even approaching 50% of the population voting for the winning group?
- soperj 13y agoThe opposite of communist is capitalist, just because it hasn't happened doesn't mean you can't have a democracy that is communist. But your point still rings true, how many capitalist societies have private police/fire dept/sewer/ health care ect ect.
- lostlogin 13y agoGreat point. Here in New Zealand we are moving towards private water/sewer and healthcare. But there is a long way to go before police and fire departments are privatized. Has anywhere privatized fire departments and police?
- mseebach 13y agoYou can see an extremely sharp bend in pretty much all economic indicators in China when they reformed away from marxism and adopted capitalist policies under Deng Xiaoping. To claim that Cuba isn't a failure is just silly, and Venezuela (which isn't labelled communist, by the way) is failing very fast.
- soperj 13y agoGreat way to make your point there, by down voting.
- mseebach 13y agoYou can't downvote replies to your own comments. But great way to act adult there.
- soperj 13y agoHow on earth is Cuba a failure in any metric except GDP and nice cars? Seriously. People are well educated, they have more doctors per capita than any country on earth. It's certainly doing a lot better than the Capitalist haven of Haiti. Venezuela, okay, not communist, socialist, still the bogeyman in the US.