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ehh, Communism will always suck... People are way to gready, selfish and competitive...

Nyte wrote:

Ancient Greece was pretty much a communist nation.  They were pretty powerful too if I'm not mistaken.

That is until the war hungry Romans (and eventually Catholics) came and raped the women, killed the children, and executed the husbands.

"Pretty much" is not synonymous with "is".

Like I said, many countries have come close, but none have established true communism.  They've only reached forms of socialism.

Technically a true Marxist/Communist society is truly Democratic (that is, everyone votes on everything).  Just one of the reasons I feel it isn't feasible (and I've been involved in a 1 and a half hour argument on the topic).

Autocracy > Communism

Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2007-03-17 05:27:25)

capitalism and democracy are not always one and the same.

Democracy is only a part of a regime - just like communism is. There are no pure things in matter of government, because a population will never be of purely one idea.

-konfusion

Communism sucks.

Capitalism sucks but is a necessary evil.

Socialism is probably the best, but it only works to a limited extent, and it is easily exploited.  Hence, most successful nations are a combination of capitalism and socialism.

The most successful nations in the world (in terms of overall quality of life for the average citizen) are usually small (less than 20 million people), highly competitive, highly skilled, highly socialized, highly taxed, and culturally homogeneous (for the most part).   This is why countries like Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and Ireland all rank very highly in things like the Human Life Development Index.

Countries larger than 20 million people usually have to lessen their taxes and social programs to remain competitive with the rest of the world.  They also tend to have more diverse populations in a cultural sense, so they spend more time politically in arguments over social policy.  Unfortunately, time spent on these socially divisive issues tend to cause lags in economic progress.

So personally, I think population size and cultural conflict have more to do with the success of a society than the economic/political status of a country.

technically, communism is an economic system where the government takes control of everything for the good of the state. 

China for example has a dictatorship, where only a handful of people in the government control the state and uses communism as a form of economic.  Though they are loosening up the grip and allow some free enterprise.

Yes, bla bla, we all know that communism will never work, its great in theory but has never worked.

Last edited by ..teddy..jimmy (2007-03-17 16:26:46)

[F7F7]KiNG_KaDaFFHi wrote:

Turquoise, are you saying Sweden is such a "good" country because we don´t have enough sexy times (small population and all...)?

LOL...  Well, the fact that your country doesn't procreate too quickly is certainly a good way to minimize poverty.  I would assume there aren't many pregnant teens in Sweden.   Those few that are there are being cared for by social programs, I would assume.

Turquoise ....kinda right there...not too many atleast...at we doo have a good social welfare program here...but I´d like to say that´s also a big question of very high taxes....I pay 33% in taxes. Still we have homeless people and poor poeple...someone always falls outside of the system.

Also we doo use birthcontrol here (parts taken from inside old animals that died)    Sexy time ftw.