Re:Under military rule, Venezuela oil workers quit in a stam...
by ekianjo on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @06:57AM
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Yeah its like there is never any real socialism, even though something like 20 different countries with different cultural backgrounds have been at it. And following pretty much to the letter what Marx intended. Yet some folks refuse to see facts for what they are.
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Re:Under military rule, Venezuela oil workers quit in a stam...
by ulzeraj on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @07:34AM
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Its about time for people to realize that it’s a broken complex system which relies on unhealthy controls over economy and actually empowers corruption and opression it claims to oppose. And I suspect that is the case since most discussions nowadays are based at the moral level rather than economics.
Re:Under military rule, Venezuela oil workers quit in a stam...
by ekianjo on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @08:22AM
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>And I suspect that is the case since most discussions nowadays are based at the moral level rather than economics.
It's pretty obvious why. Communism/Socialism has failed big time in economics, in an unmistakable way, so the only ground left to fight is on philosophy/morals. But even then there's ample evidence this leads to bad outcomes, no matter how good intentions one starts with.
Re:Under military rule, Venezuela oil workers quit in a stam...
by simonh on Thursday April 19, 2018 @06:51AM
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Marx founded communism not socialism which already existed, they are not the same thing. Many western European countries have had real socialist governments for much of the post-war period, including the UK.
Re:Under military rule, Venezuela oil workers quit in a stam...
by ekianjo on Thursday April 19, 2018 @07:00AM
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The USSR was not a communist country either if you want to argue semantics, as they called themselves socialists. Socialism is just the kind of regime that leads to a communist utopia, in the future.