Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "Asianometry" channel.

  1. Somalia after 1991 actually had "real" communism.
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  2.  @aliensoup2420  <For them it is wonderful, except when they lose control.> Like Nicolae Ceausescu of Romania.
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  3. 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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  4. <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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  5.  @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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  6.  @adiofhiowfawjfjalwdfjk1300  Yeah! So what? Life is about making the most out of what you have.
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  7. You mean depended on the outside world.
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  8.  @deborahdean8867  <Answer, power. Same reason.> Driven by ego and pride.
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  9. No. Try the state.
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  10. <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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  11. 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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  12. The Kims mismanaged North Korea to ruin.
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  13. Look no further than North Korea and Bhutan.
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  14. Yet North Korea happily submitted itself to Soviet imperialism.
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  15. Elizabeth Warren is part of the rich. Just like Bernie Sanders.
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  16.  @Superior-Brick  Yet the USSR was an imperialist.
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  17.  @charlesgrove6905  Fascism is an offspring of communism.
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  18. Money is not the problem. Humanity's own pride (along with the vanity, ego and arrogance) is.
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  19. Pretty much.
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  20. Sanctions are not a valid excuse for mismanagement and incompetence.
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  21.  @minebro9055  Exactly.
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  22. 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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  23. Exactly.
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  24. 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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  25.  @JaysMissingKidney  North Korea was a Soviet invention.
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  26. 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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  27.  @RonSafreed  Don't forget Mongolia.
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  28. Case in point: Latin America and the manner it got its independence from Spain.
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  29.  @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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  30. The US is not as dependent on oil to sustain itself as other countries whose entire economies revolve around oil.
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  31. But all those took a backseat to oil.
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  32. It didn't fail Poland or the Baltics.
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  33. But communism and socialism produce scarcity with state meddling.
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  34. Communists are some of the biggest capitalists around.
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  35.  @stevemrayz357  And then it didn't.
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  36. @愛 While NK's homeless are left eat sh-t and die at the capital's outskirts.
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  37. But shopping vacations to the very same capitalist countries they sneered at.
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  38. <Western culture encourages laziness.> Thanks to social programs and welfare.
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  39.  @blenderbanana  They still have Russia and China. The real problem is the Kim regime.
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  40. Not really. And the rest of the world doesn't owe North Korea anything.
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  41.  @aliensoup2420  Pretty much.
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  42.  @MAM-pd9mx  Communism doesn't work even in isolated systems like the Pilgrims and Jonestown.
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  43. Hardly. Virtually all of the Russia's environmental disasters happed during Soviet rule.
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  44.  @RealFemale69  Only because he became a property-owning millionaire.
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  45. But Communism made Cambodia worse than the Philippines.
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  46. Not in Lenin's USSR.
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  47. And then eat each other.
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  48. 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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  49. And then what happens when the robots and AI break down?
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  50. And also the black market.
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