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  1.  @haruruben  In other words, North Korea ran out of other people's money.
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  2.  @tekinet7958  Like every other country that adopted socialism/communism.
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  3. Actually, it should be how capitalism saved Vietnam from being like its neighbor, Cambodia.
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  4.  @mrmakhno3030  In other words, communism cannot work without tyranny.
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  5. And once upon a time in the late 1980's, Nintendo had an actual monopoly on the video game market.
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  6. In other words, if only humans were robots without individuality or agency and easy to control.
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  7.  @mrmakhno3030  With brutal suppression of individual liberty and agency.
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  8. Yet the loss of Soviet aid coupled with its inefficient central planning did far more damage.
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  9. Hard to do that in a centralized power structure in which freedom including that of thought is suppressed.
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  10.  @socalpumpballer  It figures why Pol Pot killed off anyone who looked the slightest bit educated and Cambodia is still dealing with the fallout as its current leader was once a card-carrying Khmer Rouge member.
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  11. No. That would be the Democratic Party.
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  12.  @MinhPnh  The US had nothing to do with the Holodomor, Year Zero or the Great Leap Forward.
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  13. YIKES!
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  14. Courtesy of Kim Jong-un.
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  15. Chinese aid, human and drug trafficking, etc.
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  16.  @polygentle5679  Most people don't work for corporations. And it's certainly not their fault if you don't have the skills, smarts or ambition to get something better.
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  17.  @dzanderallison  Just ask Zimbabwe and Venezuela.
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  18. Who knew that communists were every bit as wasteful?
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  19.  @MASJYT  Also many of the USSR's vassal states fell once the USSR stopped supporting them. East Germany, North Korea and Cuba among others.
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  20. And then they regressed even with all the Soviet help they got.
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  21. Venezuela: Hold my toilet paper.
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  22. Tankie, please! Your isolation was by choice. After all, you said you were self-reliant.
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  23. Except the elite.
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  24. Pretty much.
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  25. And becoming the monopoly you replaced.
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  26. LOL. Russia was always backwards.
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  27.  @djriqky9581  But not on a consistent basis.
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  28. And mismanaged them to ruin as always.
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  29. Case in point: Venezuela.
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  30. Because capitalism for all of its flaws is still the better system and is the reason China and Vietnam are no longer basket-cases or in the same position as North Korea and Cambodia.
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  31. Hoxha was a religion unto itself.
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  32.  @snowdog03  Poorer than the Philippines. Only richer than ex-communist Cambodia and still-communist Laos.
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  33.  @esbenm6544  Not really. Even Marx admitted that communism needed capitalism to make his dream come true.
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  34. @Armament Armed Arm No it wasn't. North Korea's pathetic state is of its own making.
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  35. UGH!
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  36.  @rendarecorrentecomopcoes2336  On life-support, that is. North Korea is alive only because of Chinese aid. Cuba? US remittances and Venezuelan oil.
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  37. Stockholm syndrome and nostalgia.
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  38. 3rd poorest in Europe.
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  39. The USSR treated Central Asia and Eastern Europe like France treats Western Africa.
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  40. Actually, it's not that hard. See Ethiopia.
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  41.  @johnnynick3621  Especially freedom.
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  42. Yet socialism did plenty to stifle India's development having to rely on Soviet and US aid to stay afloat.
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  43. Communism/socialism becomes exactly what capitalism is accused of and then some.
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  44. Communism doesn't work anywhere. Not even in the same continent it was founded which is Europe.
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  45. Stop lying, tankie.
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  46.  @DMM1840  Only because WW2 happened.
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  47. Or any communist regime for that matter.
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  48. Yet no real economy to sustain all that. Never mind the political repression which makes the "free" stuff trivial. Even slaves in the Antebellum US South had free education, healthcare, housing, food, jobs, etc.
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  49. Only to a tankie.
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  50. Case(s) in point: Venezuela and Nauru.
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  51.  @quantisticman8415  So did Leninism, Maoism, Ceausescu-ism, Kim-ism, Pol Pot-ism, etc.
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  52. Due to the government thinking they know better than the market.
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  53.  @xp7575  You weren't saying that during the USSR's prosperous years.
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  54. China USSR Ethiopia Cambodia Zimbabwe Venezuela North Korea Vietnam Romania
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  55.  @deborahdean8867  <it will take a total restructuring of society to get people actually interested in working in a project or goal without compensation. > Called for by people who wouldn't do such a thing themselves, yet think it's a great idea for others.
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  56. Only to subject humanity to the bondage of socialism. There are a billion Chinese folks with 1st-hand experience.
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  57. Still better than the communist dystopias that are North Korea and Cambodia.
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  58. Too bad society will just crumble.
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  59. LOL. What a poor comparison.
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  60. LOL. Taiwan still has 16x the GDP per capita of Vietnam.
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  61.  @manjelos  Exactly.
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  62.  @FrenzyyLumina  Communism and shortages.
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  63. Capitalism may have had its flaws, but socialism/communism was a false solution.
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  64. @alwynraynott7303 And matriarchies generally regress.
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  65.  @hereticalbug6361  Yet the results remain the same.
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  66.  @sisyphusvasilias3943  But the Soviet Union wasn't able to sustain it declining just as rapidly as it grew.
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  67. Thanks to oil.
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  68.  @neilreynolds3858  And risk jail time.
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  69.  @turtlecraft7996  <the future of mankind is communism.> State-sponsored slavery.
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  70. North Korea is far from industrialized. <give free homes, food, education, and healthcare to the biggest part of its population,> Yet no economy or progress to put any of them to good use in making them a pointless waste.
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  71. Also genocide.
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  72. Better to be Japan than North Korea, a communist hellhole that even fellow communist hellhole China doesn't like but supports if only to keep the West via South Korea at bay.
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  73. <which the workers own their workplaces and share resources based on need"> Which they can already do in capitalism if they had the foresight to save their money and start their own business instead of thinking they're entitled to the means of production bought by the business-owner.
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  74.  @shadowxgaming4247  <Bosses LITERALLY would not be able to make profit without the employees below them.> While employees wouldn't have a job without the bosses employing them or signing their paychecks.
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  75. <n America, most retired people live on soft socialist programs & egalitarian policies that created social security, medicare & medicaid programs. > All paid for by the rich who account for 70% of all taxes paid.
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  76. Exactly.
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  77. They were and are socialist/communist IN PRACTICE. Talk is cheap.
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  78.  @сырпошехонский  Ditto for South Korea and Singapore.
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  79. By that logic, Equatorial Guinea should be the richest country in Africa since it does have the highest GDP per capita in the continent thanks to oil among other natural resources. Yet 75% of its population are poor and the ruling Nguema family controls all the wealth making it a functional kleptocracy.
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  80.  GodisMyNo1  Not really. It was built with Soviet and Chinese aid.
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  81. <Democratic Socialism is a different system altogether. > Like what Greece, Venezuela and Jamaica had?
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  82.  @Osterochse  And irrelevant.
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  83.  @tekinet7958  Doesn't matter as even the communist/socialist countries that didn't support Stalin produced the very same results of famine, repression and backwardness. Remember Albania.
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  84. But will happily be slaves to Russian, Chinese and international handouts.
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  85. Things communists say to distance themselves from their own model when things don't pan out.
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  86. So did the Cubans and Ethiopians.
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  87. Or resource curse.
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  88. <many Black leaders in the U.S.> Including the Black Panthers, Eldridge Cleaver aside.
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  89.  @rafaellisboa8493  According to tankies.
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  90. I wouldn't say dumb, but incredibly naive and delusional.
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  91. <half of human population who is fighting to survive.> In countries that practiced what the USSR had to varying degrees and are dealing with the fallout.
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  92. 12:38 So this is what the left mean by TAX THE RICH.
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  93.  @G.S.30  Fascism is communism's offspring.
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  94. Says the greedy and envious.
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  95. Also Cuba.
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  96. No. There's a trade blockade, because they rather threaten South Korea and Japan while leeching off of China because their model is too inadequate and inefficient to feed itself than develop an economy that lives up to its Juche name. North Korean leadership is the reason why North Korea is starving, not some capitalists.
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  97. Not nearly as much as (leftist) governments.
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  98.  @socalpumpballer  More or less.
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  99.  @jerryle379  Yet somehow the Philippines is wealthier than ex-communist Cambodia and still-communist Laos.
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  100. Fascism is an offspring of socialism. And Hitler's policies were on par with Lenin and Stalin's, ethnic connotations aside.
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  101.  @xp7575  <Marxism is the abolition of government> Like what Somalia had after Barre was ousted for the next 2 and a half decades?
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  102. Indeed.
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  103.  @doorhanger9317  As long as someone else is footing the bill, I presume.
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  104. Be it through malice or ignorance.
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  105. Considering that he's supposed to be a god.
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  106. <It's impossible to build socialism without democracy and basic human rights.> Because when socialism does have democracy and human rights, everything comes apart. Case(s) in point: the USSR and Yugoslavia. <The dictatorship of the proletariat, was in fact a dictatorship of the party's beaurocracy against the proletariat.> When they say power to the people, what they really mean is power to the state. Power OVER the people. Margaret Thatcher was right.
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  107.  @terrancex339  <The US for example spend close to trillion of dollars annually on it's military alone but yet have baffling no healthcare system to speak of.> Which allows the likes of Sweden, the UAE, Canada, etc. to enjoy their social democratic welfare states taking their own defense for granted.
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  108.  @DarkZerol  <by Mao Zedong.> Who condemned 45 million of his own countrymen to starvation and death what he envisioned.
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  109. OUCH!
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  110. Yet depends on other countries for food, currency, etc.
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  111. Communists are some of the biggest capitalists around.
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  112.  @gtPacheko  Well, government bureaucrats are the people. Are they not? North Korea is socialist. Sorry, tankie!
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  113. Otto Warmbier.
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  114. Ethiopia had it with Mengistu.
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  115.  @SmashingCapital  And when it did become democratic, it was the final nail in the coffin. The results: collapse, civil war and its vassal states opting for independence.
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  116. Especially in places where Democrats are in charge.
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  117.  @slavenskazajednica7912  And you must have been one of those regime bootlickers.
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  118.  @deborahdean8867  No. The famine was a matter of government policy. Drought alone cannot cause famines.
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  119. There are no benefits.
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  120. Namely ex-members, descendants and beneficiaries of the old regime.
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  121. Moldova North Korea (insert Central Asian nation) (East) Germany
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  122.  @Regonix  "True" socialism/communism as the poster advocates was already tried in Somalia after it s one-time Soviet-backed dictator was ousted. It had no state (literally, no government), no money (formal economy) and no classes (just pirates, warlords, goat-herders and ordinary folks).
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  123. @Armament Armed Arm At least the US can produce its own food, because its agricultural model is actually efficient and adequate. Something North Korea just isn't and certainly hasn't been since Kim Il-Sung took charge.
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  124.  @leezhieng  No. More like the Ethiopian famine. Or the North Korean famine.
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  125. Russia also created Mongolia. And Mongolia had its own Lenin/Stalin with Choibalsan.
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  126. Because communists are generally amateurs when it comes to running nations.
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  127.  @jimgravesus  Exactly.
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  128.  @view1st  <Cubans too.> Thanks to US food aid.
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  129.  @xp7575  Every communist's favorite excuse.
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  130.  @xp7575  Yes it is. That's what they always say when it fails to produce the utopia it promised.
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  131. Exactly. And can be as inefficient, incompetent, wasteful and costly as it desires.
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  132.  @socalpumpballer  Pretty much. Plus, Marx had nothing in common with the working class he had so much solidarity with. He was an upper-class deadbeat grifter.
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  133. Exactly.
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  134.  @AdamSmith-gs2dv  And today, Cambodia is one of the poorest countries in Asia. Poorer than the Philippines that some of the left cite as proof of capitalist failure.
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  135.  @jimgravesus  And that's considering Marx was part of the very same bourgeoisie he wanted destroyed.
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  136. There was another system that had exactly that. It was called slavery.
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  137. <3rd world countries > Most 3rd world countries were actually communist but refused to be Soviet puppets.
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  138. North Korea earned its demonization. <they refuse to submit to their western domination. > Yet happily submit to Russian and Chinese domination. <The fact that they survived and became a feared power in the region after all these years of sanctions and bullying should tell a story not the words of western media.> Thanks to human and drug trafficking, currency-counterfeiting and Chinese aid.
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  139. Pretty much. Because communism/socialism is a consumer, not a producer and can only sustain itself by brute force and taxing "the rich."
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  140. Like the kulaks in Lenin's Russia/USSR.
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  141. When they say that communism is a system for workers, what they really mean is it's a system for government bureaucrats.
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  142.  @bushwalker6214  The average Liberal/Democrat/leftist.
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  143. After adopting capitalism and being host to US manufacturing jobs.
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  144. Exactly.
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  145.  @EricChien95  Bad analogy. North Korea regressed with Kim Il-Sung's policies having to resort to Soviet, Chinese and international aid to compensate for the inefficiencies and inadequacies of the model the country operated under.
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  146. <Socialism is when the people control production and the distribution of wealth> And mismanage them into ruin due to their own greed and incompetence.
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  147. <But with money, 90-99% of the population is miserable because they have to work a job they hate just to keep a roof over their head> And keep society going. If everyone just did the jobs they love, who's going to be around to build and maintain infrastructure? Robots can't do everything. <A system with no money would have no problems functioning as the people within that system would be far more content then those in a system with money.> It would have plenty of problems functioning as such a system would stagnate and eventually die as it's not sustainable. <If they don't, they'll die.> Just like animals do. They're not above having to work to eat.
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  148.  @aliensoup2420  Including Atheism a.k.a. Paganism 2.0.
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  149. Socialism is about control under the guise of upliftment.
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  150. Fascism is a product of socialism.
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  151. <No country has been communist because Karl Marx understood that it had to be international> As in imperialist.
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  152.  @YTispartofproblem  And become the owner class.
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  153. For what? There is a reason why humanity moved on from that once money proved far more effective and efficient in conducting transactions.
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  154. The only monopolies that hurt countries are state/government ones.
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  155. Pretty much.
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  156. Nah. He was just merely picking up where Lenin left off with the Red Terror and kangaroo trials.
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  157. <it's based on hatred and theft of those more successful than you.> It's proper term is envy. <It's also based I'm complete disregard for life.> Like all other collectivist ideals, communism does not value or respect individual liberty or personal agency.
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  158. Especially state ones.
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  159. Not at all and not even close.
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  160. Lenin was a tyrant.
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  161. Because Kim is a liability. Plus Russia and China are tired of supporting a deadbeat country.
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  162.  @dengxiaopinggaming5500  But it came at the expense of its economy that ran on fumes once the US military spending exposed it.
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  163.  @view1st  Only because of Deng's capitalist reforms and Clinton's outsourcing of US manufacturing jobs.
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  164. Good luck with that as the world is every bit as corrupt as the the supposed rich you say it should eat.
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  165. It is because of the system itself as it was based on a ignorant premise.
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  166. You and you alone are responsible for looking out for your best interests. Not anyone else.
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  167. Namely Ferdinand Marcos.
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  168. But it's even more ridiculous to have a society based on infinite resources to meet everyone's needs. Even the wealthiest of capitalist countries don't have infinite resources.
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  169. And into communist imperialism imposing it on its Eastern and Central European neighbors.
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  170. Funded by George Soros and some of them were well-to-do college kids from Canada.
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  171. <but almost every Albanian I've ever spoken to has said that the socialist hoxha years are fondly remembered. > Namely old people that time long left behind.
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  172. And Somalia achieved communism after 1991 with its stateless (no government for the next 2.5 decades), moneyless (no formal currency or economy) and classless (just warlords, pirates, goat-herders and peasants) society.
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  173. If those same better leaders believed in free markets and understood basic economics.
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  174.  @aliensoup2420  Our master.
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  175. No. Try flat taxation. Everyone pays the same rate.
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  176.  @Youtuber69428  But they weren't allowed to repair them.
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  177. Communism = dictatorship.
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  178. Pretty much.
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  179. The only thing communists/socialists seem to never have any shortage of is excuses.
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  180. Private hands being members, descendants and beneficiaries of the old communist guard.
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  181. But Kim Jong-Un has succeeded in starving the DPRK.
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  182. Because left-wingers swear that socialism/communism is the ultimate solution to everything that ails humanity.
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  183. ROFL. All because they're either too leftist or not leftist enough.
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  184.  @ДмитрийСадков-с4о  Like post-Barre Somalia?
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  185.  @AM-zk7pj  North Korea earned its painting. And the US has nothing to do with it.
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  186. LOL. Most capitalist countries, especially the US have social welfare. <You should make a video on American homeless people... The highest all over the world> Actually that would be Nigeria. America is #10.
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  187. Only to bankrupt the business and put the workers out of work in the process.
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  188.  @wongkeehan  Especially when the money ran out.
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  189. But NK is a product of Soviet/Chinese imperialism.
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  190. Except politicians.
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  191.  @rft9776  South Koreans live a full 10 years longer than North Koreans.
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  192. And Eastern Europe was to the USSR what Africa was to Western Europe.
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  193. Kim Jong-Un's grandfather.
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  194.  @JTguitarlessons  The problem lies with humanity itself with pride being the father of all other sins.
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  195. Communism outlaws God only to make itself God. Notice the only countries that ever had and/or still have state religion were run by Atheists and Muslims?
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  196. But whatever successes it does achieve will be short-lived just like all the other previous communist revolutions.
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  197. And collectivist.
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  198. Be it national like Germany, democratic like Jamaica and Greece, fascist like Italy (by the way, Mussolini was a communist), communist like the USSR and Red China or regular like Zimbabwe.
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  199. <The goal is to bring about ECONOMICAL EQUALITY> With everyone except Party elites equally poor. Well, it achieved that.
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  200.  @xp7575  What communists always say when their beloved experiment blows up in their faces.
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  201.  @tlsvd5842  Venezuela and Cuba's starvation are due to the Venezuelan and Cuban governments' decimation of local industry. The sanctions are nothing.
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  202. Not really. Then you have to deal with state monopoly which have consistently done more stifle society.
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  203.  @EricChien95  North Korea is not owed any trade.
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  204. Poland.
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  205.  @prettyshortshorts  Not according to most governments, even the more communist ones.
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  206. The USSR imploded largely on its own.
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  207.  @xp7575  <America had it's best economy when it was in it's most socialist form following WW2> And then socialism outlived its usefulness.
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  208. Pretty much.
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  209. No. Because Kim cares more about power consolidation and the military as the people can eat feces, tree bark and grass for all he cares.
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  210. Like every other socialist/communist regime.
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  211.  @tw3f4tes52  <The USSR saw what had been at the time the greatest economic growth ever recorded until roughly the end of Khrushchev. > And then it fell as fast it rose.
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  212. Well, it needed capitalism to fund its communist ambitions.
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  213. Communism by nature is a parasite and cannot support or sustain itself without capitalism to give it the illusion of viability.
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  214. AOC's only experience with the working class were her weekend visits to see relatives in the Bronx.
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  215.  @xblade11230  Moldova's billionaires are ex-members, descendants and beneficiaries of the old communist regime.
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  216.  @fsul8536  And ended up regressing.
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  217. In all fairness, communism doesn't work even on paper.
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  218. And how many famines were due to anything other than politics?
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  219. But Hoxha still ran the country into the ground.
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  220.  @teq1917  Yes he did. Cope! LOL @ Albania being a powerhouse.
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  221. Well, they are. Communists are great at leading armies, but not nations.
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  222. Courtesy of beneficiaries, descendants and ex-members of the old communist elite.
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  223. Also 106 years to get it to work.
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  224. At the time of the Cold War, 38% of the world was socialist/communist.
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  225. @Armament Armed Arm <you cannot reliably attribute anything bad in NK to the NK government. > Yes you can. Sanctions are not a valid excuse for mismanagement and corruption largely to fuel the Kim regime's power-trips.
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  226. Exactly.
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  227.  @CripplingDuality  And rightfully so.
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  228. Exactly.
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  229.  @rayleth5979  But neither China or Russia want a united Korea operating on a free-market capitalist democratic model at their doorsteps.
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  230. Just like you can't eliminate greed as socialists are subject to the human condition like everyone else. <without establishing world socialism/communism> Which would just end up being a globalized version of what the USSR was.
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  231.  @richardscathouse  No. Like every other dictatorship.
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  232. Exactly.
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  233.  @socalpumpballer  Exactly.
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  234.  @tactknightgaming2066  LOL. Communists are even more dishonest using the same workers they claim to have so much solidarity with to enrich and empower themselves. It figures when Karl Marx had little in common with the working class yet spoke like he was the voice of them.
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  235. Just like Ukraine.
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  236.  @Layd36  Sanctions are not a valid excuse for mismanagement.
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  237. Interesting how a lot of socialist/communist regimes called themselves democratic and people's. .
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  238. <I don’t believe this is a problem with Communism but with oil prices In general considering many capitalist countries also collapsed due to their reliance of oil exports.> Like which country?
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  239. Communism is hierarchal while insisting on being the opposite.
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  240.  @pedrob3953  Only to actually give the working class perdition.
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  241.  _*ZAPATOZ*_  Because Marxists are not above the human condition like they thought they were.
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  242.  @aliensoup2420  North Korea also has 0% unemployment.
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  243. Until it crippled their finances and had to borrow money to stave off bankruptcy.
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  244.  @socalpumpballer  Don't forget the public sector.
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  245. Where blood, child, virgin and animal sacrifices = currency.
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  246. The last thing China and Russia want is a unified pro-capitalist democracy at their doorsteps.
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  247.  @view1st  While North Korea wouldn't have been a Soviet and Chinese vassal state likewise.
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  248. The PRC is just picking up where the USSR left off in aiding DPRK.
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  249. <The West will die from too much individualism> While too much collectivism have rendered much of the East null and void.
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  250. So was Hitler. People who praise tyrants either worked for or received financial favors from them.
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  251. Somalia after 1991 actually had "real" communism.
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  252.  @aliensoup2420  <For them it is wonderful, except when they lose control.> Like Nicolae Ceausescu of Romania.
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  253. Plus the equivalent to Stalin condemning 7 million Ukrainians to starvation and death was Marx condemning his own family, maid and love-child to the same as he refused to work and provide.
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  254. <mindyou Marx also wrote it was only possible for a communist revolution to happen in the most advanced capitalist countries > In other words, communism needs capitalism.
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  255.  @dragosstanciu9866  Because Capitalism is the default economic model of humanity. And capitalism thrived even in the biggest communist regimes through the black market.
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  256.  @adiofhiowfawjfjalwdfjk1300  Yeah! So what? Life is about making the most out of what you have.
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  257. You mean depended on the outside world.
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  258.  @deborahdean8867  <Answer, power. Same reason.> Driven by ego and pride.
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  259. No. Try the state.
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  260. <Communism revolutions are the worst, because they kill the smart people, including teachers, managers, thus no one knew how to make anything anymore.> Case in point: Cambodia under Pol Pot and Khmer Rouge.
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  261. And they can't import food, because they have no industries adequate enough to produce anything worth trading for money to buy it.
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  262. The Kims mismanaged North Korea to ruin.
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  263. Look no further than North Korea and Bhutan.
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  264. Yet North Korea happily submitted itself to Soviet imperialism.
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  265. Elizabeth Warren is part of the rich. Just like Bernie Sanders.
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  266.  @Superior-Brick  Yet the USSR was an imperialist.
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  267.  @charlesgrove6905  Fascism is an offspring of communism.
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  268. Money is not the problem. Humanity's own pride (along with the vanity, ego and arrogance) is.
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  269. Pretty much.
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  270. Sanctions are not a valid excuse for mismanagement and incompetence.
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  271.  @minebro9055  Exactly.
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  272. Or Venezuela, Or Cuba. Or Angola (with the late dictator's daughter becoming the richest woman in Africa). Or North Korea. Or Zimbabwe.
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  273. Exactly.
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  274. LOL. It is because of communism due to its promotion and practice of inefficient and ineffective farming methods and the government hoarding of the final product.
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  275.  @JaysMissingKidney  North Korea was a Soviet invention.
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  276. Not really. Why would you trust a person who could barely run his/her own life, finances and household with the country?
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  277.  @RonSafreed  Don't forget Mongolia.
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  278. Case in point: Latin America and the manner it got its independence from Spain.
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  279.  @rubenlarochelle1881  <while socialism aims at eliminating them.> While imposing taxes on anyone who dare try and improve their own financial situations. Capitalism taxes the rich. Socialism taxes any attempt to be rich.
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  280. The US is not as dependent on oil to sustain itself as other countries whose entire economies revolve around oil.
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  281. But all those took a backseat to oil.
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  282. It didn't fail Poland or the Baltics.
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  283. But communism and socialism produce scarcity with state meddling.
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  284. Communists are some of the biggest capitalists around.
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  285.  @stevemrayz357  And then it didn't.
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  286. @愛 While NK's homeless are left eat sh-t and die at the capital's outskirts.
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  287. But shopping vacations to the very same capitalist countries they sneered at.
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  288. <Western culture encourages laziness.> Thanks to social programs and welfare.
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  289.  @blenderbanana  They still have Russia and China. The real problem is the Kim regime.
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  290. Not really. And the rest of the world doesn't owe North Korea anything.
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  291.  @aliensoup2420  Pretty much.
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  292.  @MAM-pd9mx  Communism doesn't work even in isolated systems like the Pilgrims and Jonestown.
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  293. Hardly. Virtually all of the Russia's environmental disasters happed during Soviet rule.
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  294.  @RealFemale69  Only because he became a property-owning millionaire.
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  295. But Communism made Cambodia worse than the Philippines.
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  296. Not in Lenin's USSR.
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  297. And then eat each other.
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  298. Well, the USSR fell as fast as it rose. The problem with socialism/communism is that whatever success it does achieve is often short-lived.
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  299. And then what happens when the robots and AI break down?
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  300. And also the black market.
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