Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "How Communism Nearly Starved Vietnam" video.

  1.  @tekinet7958  Like every other country that adopted socialism/communism.
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  2. Actually, it should be how capitalism saved Vietnam from being like its neighbor, Cambodia.
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  3.  @mrmakhno3030  In other words, communism cannot work without tyranny.
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  4. In other words, if only humans were robots without individuality or agency and easy to control.
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  5.  @mrmakhno3030  With brutal suppression of individual liberty and agency.
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  6.  @MinhPnh  The US had nothing to do with the Holodomor, Year Zero or the Great Leap Forward.
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  7.  @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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  8. 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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  9.  @snowdog03  Poorer than the Philippines. Only richer than ex-communist Cambodia and still-communist Laos.
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  10. Actually, it's not that hard. See Ethiopia.
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  11. Communism doesn't work anywhere. Not even in the same continent it was founded which is Europe.
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  12. Stop lying, tankie.
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  13. Only to a tankie.
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  14. China USSR Ethiopia Cambodia Zimbabwe Venezuela North Korea Vietnam Romania
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  15. LOL. Taiwan still has 16x the GDP per capita of Vietnam.
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  16.  @FrenzyyLumina  Communism and shortages.
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  17. Also genocide.
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  18. <Democratic Socialism is a different system altogether. > Like what Greece, Venezuela and Jamaica had?
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  19.  @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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  20. Things communists say to distance themselves from their own model when things don't pan out.
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  21.  @jerryle379  Yet somehow the Philippines is wealthier than ex-communist Cambodia and still-communist Laos.
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  22. Be it through malice or ignorance.
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  23.  @leezhieng  No. More like the Ethiopian famine. Or the North Korean famine.
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  24. Exactly.
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  25. After adopting capitalism and being host to US manufacturing jobs.
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  26. Not at all and not even close.
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  27. You and you alone are responsible for looking out for your best interests. Not anyone else.
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  28.  @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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  29. Like every other socialist/communist regime.
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  30. Sanctions are not a valid excuse for mismanagement and incompetence.
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  31.  @minebro9055  Exactly.
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  32.  @stevemrayz357  And then it didn't.
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  33. But Communism made Cambodia worse than the Philippines.
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  34. Not in Lenin's USSR.
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