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Re:How Venezuela Struck It Poor by megaman22 on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @04:47AM (#17599177)
China is an awful example. State-directed socialist policies led to one of the worst losses of life in human history.
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Re:How Venezuela Struck It Poor by leonk on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @07:05AM (#17599860)
Life expectancy went up during communist rule. See https://www.google.co.uk/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9... There are plenty of capitalist states and policies that have resulted in huge amounts of loss of life.
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