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  1. LOL
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  2. No. The love of money is the root of all evil.
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  3. LOL. <Socialism and hard working goes hand in hand> No it doesn't. If anything, socialism and envy go hand in hand. After all, it spends a lot of its time obsessing over what and how much one person has in comparison to another slandering and advocating harm dome to that one person for being "greedy and oppressive." <So don't mislead people with your confusion foolish views> Follow your own advice.
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  4.  @werner240  Cut off the welfare.
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  5. Envy, covetousness and entitlement. The foundations of socialism.
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  6.  @thokozanidzobozsangweni7134  The US is the least of Cuba's problems as the US despite the embargos is one of its top trading partners. Cuba's communism been weak from the start as it hardly produces anything worth trading and has been dependent on foreign aid ever since Castro took over.
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  7.  @lIlIIIIIIIlIl  Canada does not have such a thing.
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  8. Let alone maintain it. After all, hunters and gathers were just nomads who moved out once their source of food dried up.
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  9. 7:22 Envy and ego.
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  10. Iran is under sanctions, yet Iran is doing nowhere as badly.
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  11. Pretty much.
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  12.  @helenduplessis4166  <But, greed is a trait that God and Jesus despise.> So is envy hence "THOU SHALL NOT COVET."
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  13.  @stephaneric150  Wrong! Capitalism made China the 2nd largest economy in the world as China owes its model to Singapore.
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  14.  @SA4Peace2  Iran is under the same sanctions. How come they're not struggling as badly?
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  15. Exactly.
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  16. And even by Marx's own admission, socialism is nothing without capitalism to co-opt and present the illusion of viability.
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  17.  @halalisanimasikane9606  Only because she's not telling you what you're used to hearing from establishment-approved sources.
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  18. Even Karl Marx himself admitted it.
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  19.  @alexqeda7157  Can't do what?
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  20.  @AndrewMcFarlane_1  That's if they're allowed to have an honest opinion without fearing jail or disappearance.
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  21.  @AndrewMcFarlane_1  And socialism like every other collectivist idea does not believe in individual liberty or personal autonomy/agency.
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  22. <Socialism is direct opposite.> Tyranny, equal distribution of poverty, chronic shortages of basic needs, disproportionate benefits go to the state and the well-connected, etc. <Look there are less benefits in capitalism than in socialism.> Care to explain why people flee socialist countries for capitalist ones and seldom vice versa?
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  23. So this is what the left means by workers seizing the means of production. Punish aptitude and reward incompetence. All due to envy.
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  24.  @lebogangncongwane4298  Also thou shall not covet which goes against the socialist/communist idea based on envy and entitlement.
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  25. What did you expect from a former Soviet-backed terrorist group turned ruling political party?
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  26. He was able to find his purpose.
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  27. Fidel died a multi-millionaire.
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  28. Also Angola.
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  29. <Look at Communist China today.> Thanks to capitalist reforms and the outsourcing of Western manufacturing jobs.
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  30. And let it go to waste as the black man has proven himself to be not up to the task?
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  31. LOL. <Why do they never fail to interfere with it?> What was Tanzania's excuse? Or Somalia's which actually had capitalist support? <Are people not dying of starvation in this capitalist South Africa?> South Africa is barely capitalist anymore thanks to the socialist ANC in charge.
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  32. <South Korea did not Develop itself The USA gave Hundreds of Billions to South Korea to help Develop the Nation. > Neither did North Korea as lived off of Soviet and Chinese aid since the Korean War despite being wealthier than South Korea until the 1990's.
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  33. Tanzania, Madagascar, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe.
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  34.  @5678efgh3  Something a socialist always says when socialism blows up in their faces especially when foreign meddling cannot be blamed. I bet you're weren't saying that when they had their prosperous moments.
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  35.  @SmilingBubbles-ue1yl  LOL.
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  36. They look out for the less advantaged folk. Namely their families and friends.
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  37. And clout.
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  38. And beating it.
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  39. LOL.
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  40.  @agro-valleyfarm7217  Weren't those anti-apartheid orgs once funded by the USSR?
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  41. The Chinese didn't revolt. Mao just simply died and Deng did away with most of his policies
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  42. <You kill wealth with forced distribution laws because those who create choose to leave.> If they didn't get killed or jailed first. Notice how a lot of countries that adopted socialism ended up having to rely on foreign aid just to stay afloat because their forced distribution laws killed off local production and in turn their ability to feed themselves and then they have the nerve to blame foreign sanctions?
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  43.  @almogueraibmpaco9382  Because in communism, freedom including that of association and assembly does not exist.
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  44. Crabs in the barrel.
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  45. And also the number of countries communism left bankrupt in its wake politically, economically, socially and spiritually.
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  46.  @calmatic4254  Only for show while the economy suffered.
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  47. It's too much work.
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  48. Tanzania never faced any sanctions under Nyerere. And Nyerere actually owned up to his policies that led Tanzania to ruin.
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  49. And for good reason. They have ran South Africa into the ground.
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  50. PREACH!
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  51. <At least white people are not dehumanized oppressed or enslaved.They can still do business freely and fairly.> Because Mandela knew he needed them to keep the SA economy afloat.
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  52. Socialism cannot sustain itself without tyranny or foreign aid.
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  53. <theirs is corrupt and driven by greed and hate.> Along with envy and ignorance.
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  54.  @spencercourtis777  S<ocialism is an economic system in which major industries are owned by the workers, rather than by private businesses. > Which can be already achieved in capitalism through entrepreneurship.
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  55.  @spencercourtis777  Workers are susceptible to greed like everyone else.
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  56. Just like every other socialist plunderer was. Hitler, Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Pol Pot, etc.
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  57. But at least workers will own the means of production. LOL
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  58. Black supremacy.
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  59. The only sanctions killing Cuba is that by the Cuban government. Central economic planning at work.
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  60. Because China got its model from Singapore liberalizing the economy and adopting free-market reforms. Ditto for Vietnam.
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  61.  @thokozanidzobozsangweni7134  < in my point of view the US is the one that exploiting Cuba and putting pushing a false narrative about Cuban communism, labelling it as weak. > It is weak. It is nothing without foreign aid to compensate for the Cuban government's gutting of domestic industry with price control, high tariffs and taxes, trade restrictions and bureaucracy.
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  62. Marxists are some of the biggest capitalists around.
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  63.  @paulbeukes9137  Um. Hitler was an Atheist as later on he denounced Christianity. Just like Mussolini.
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  64. Socialism lends itself very well to kleptocracy.
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  65. You have only Nelson Mandela to thank for that. It was small price to pay to prevent post-Apartheid civil war.
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  66.  @Erysx12  Are there even any black people in Monaco?
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  67. Western powers didn't make Mugabe give the seized land to political friends and people who didn't know how to farm.
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  68. In the case of most of the former Soviet vassal states, Soviet aid, which includes Cuba and North Korea.
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  69. Like Ghana under Nkrumah and he taxed and regulated the farmers out of the country?
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  70. Including the communism he espouses.
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  71. And revolutions eat their own.
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  72. At the expense of the people they swear to have solidarity with.
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  73. Capitalism is the answer. Capitalism is the reason China is no longer a basket case like its neighbors North Korea, Cambodia or Myanmar. Capitalism is the reason South Africa is still the wealthiest country in Africa despite the ANC's best attempts to turn it into its neighbors Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
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  74.  @ciro_costa  China started prospering when it ditched communism for capitalism and liberated its economy. Ditto for Vietnam and India.
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  75.  @ciro_costa  LOL. Mao had China on the brink of collapse by the time he died. It was Deng's economic reforms that spared China the fate of the USSR and other Soviet vassal states.
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  76.  @ciro_costa  No. The USSR fell, because the model was just no longer sustainable with declining oil revenues and increasing military budgets.
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  77.  @ciro_costa  India was not under sanctions as it was a neutral country and adopted free-market reforms after the Soviet aid dried up. Socialism did nothing for India except keep iy impoverished and stagnant for most of its post-independence history. <A capitalist market economy is extremely inneficient. It leads to cyclical crisis of overproduction.> A socialist planned economy is even more so as it often leads to underproduction and chronic shortages requiring foreign aid to make up for it. <A planned economy will always be superior. > LOL.
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  78. Even in Sweden. It had to privatize a lot of its industries in the 80's.
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  79. <There is nothing democratic about the Congo,> And Mobutu wasn't nearly as anti-communist as he was anti-USSR. He idolized Mao and ran Zaire (DRC) like a communist.
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  80. <And Cuba is as it is because of sanctions,> Sanctions don't stop Cuba from getting remittances and food aid from the very same USA. And sanctions were hardly an issue when it played sugar baby to the USSR.
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  81. The ANC exploited the poor to enrich and empower themselves. The ANC was once Soviet-funded.
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  82. Except the government and the well-connected.
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  83. <but uneducated people know nothing...> Notice that in every other socialist/communist country, the educated are often killed, jailed or exiled?
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  84. Namely by those who don't know any better.
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  85. Honest criticism = hate?
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  86. Capitalism may have real problems, but socialism and communism are false solutions. And the comrades are just power-mongers.
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  87.  @shaughnyventura6000  Where they're rented out like temp agency workers and their governments keep 90% of their earnings.
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  88. Trillionaire to be precise.
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  89. But that's not sustainable. Not everyone can farm and subsistence farming cannot feed nations.
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  90.  @bokangreacts843  But not sustainably, hence the rural-area poverty. <not everyone wants to be a big scale farmer > Not everyone can be anyway. Big-scale farmers are for nations and cities.
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  91. The biggest racists against Black people are other Black people.
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  92. Exactly.
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  93. Nor is Botswana. But Namibia, Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique are.
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  94. It is better. Better "unaffordable" than unavailable. .<the same capitalism that comodifies water, creates sicknesses in order to make money, pattern seeds inorder to control food production. > While in socialism there's no water at all let alone to commodify.
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  95. Just like most leftists.
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  96. And nepotism.
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  97. And East Germany to this day is still poorer than West Germany.
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  98. They know what communism is. They just want to be the ones in charge and reap the benefit.
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  99. Judging the results they have produced, aside from rigged elections and a decidedly lower body count in the former, not at all.
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  100. Don't be too surprised if those state-owned enterprises end up privatized.
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  101.  @the_antiquark  Most of his are indeed fools.
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  102. Now how's that for trickle-down economics?
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  103.  @ndwandwewasendwedwe7964  While socialism cannot survive without capitalism to give it the illusion of viability even by Marx's own admission. BTW socialism is every bit as imperialist. After all, it has to be worldwide in order for it to work, right? <You never worked hard for what you have.> While you mismanage what you have and are not that efficient despite working hard.
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  104. South Africa today is a Black supremacist nation.
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  105. <the MELINATED (black and so-called colored people) of South Afrika are quite content to have the whyte immigrants in SOUTH AFRIKA continue to control their land, mineral resources and dominate every sector of their economy> Because white people have the expertise and are responsible for virtually all of the wealth and food produced in South Africa.
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  106. China got its model from Singapore.
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  107. She's one of those Liberation Theologist types. And Liberation Theology = Marxism disguised as Christianity.
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  108. Liberation Theology = Marxist propaganda disguised as Christianity. <And it's rooted in genocide as Lenin genocided white farmers in Ukraine. > That was Stalin. Lenin massacred the so-called Kulaks who were little more than successful peasants.
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  109. Public infrastructure and services =/= socialism.
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  110. <And communism (face palm) - the machiavellian and psychopathic Putin and his sycophantuc oligarch are multi-billionaires.> Just like much of the rest of Eastern Europe. Ruled by descendants, ex-members and beneficiaries of the old communist regimes responsible for running the region into the ground.
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  111.  @EMPIREBYSONIC  Their own government.
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  112. They're not dumb. They're deceitful and they desire to be in charge of what has happened in Cuba.
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  113. First of all, there is no such thing as equality. And equality is unjust to those with the potential for better.
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  114. Not everyone can anyway. <Not everyone black or white person wants to be a business owner> Because they can't handle the responsibilities of being a business-owner. Plus if it wasn't for the business-owner, they wouldn't have a job at all let alone get paid for their work.
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  115. <Socialism fails because Western countries fight other countries that seek independence.> Tanzania and Madagascar were largely left alone. China didn't start prospering until the socialism was toned down and capitalism was ramped up.
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  116.  @PatrickSkosana-uc9gi  <Capitalism does not care about human well-being; it prioritizes the interests of the market over people's. > Neither does socialism as it prioritizes the state over the people. <Capitalism is the most horrible system we've ever encountered. It creates social division, inequality, and encourages greed around the world.> So does socialism. Equality does not exist. So does socialism through envy and entitlement hence the eternal victimhood based on fabricated or exaggerated grievances and the belief anyone has the "basic human right" to anything just because they exist at all with the so-called rich expected to provide at a steep discount if not for free under threat of theft, death and/or slander.
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  117. Exactly.
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  118. In Cuba, the people are living in buildings with no basic utilities and in disrepair.
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  119.  @michaelstamike  No. Cuba is a shithole thanks to Castro. Interesting how the loss of Soviet and Venezuelan aid did far more damage to Cuba's economy than the US sanctions. Plus, Cuba gets most of its food from the very same US.
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  120.  @SA4Peace2  America is not responsible for Castro decimating domestic industry with his nationalizations, price controls and production quotas making Cuba dependent on imports.
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  121.  @SA4Peace2  <Cuba used to be a thriving heaven for the rich.> And ever since Castro, Cuba has been a run-down ghetto. Sanctions are not a valid excuse for tyranny and mismanagement.
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  122. <What's wrong if land is owned by state like any other progressive states in the world > Mismanagement and waste resulting in the state having to import its food just to feed itself.
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  123. LOL. You have to be really naive if you think Russia or China are going to treat black people any better than they already treat their own people, Ukrainians or Uyghurs. <You are praising you master who enslaved black people and send them in suffering and pain.> Enabled and facilitated by other black people.
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  124. In violation of God's Commandment thou shall not covet.
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  125. Like ever other form of collectivism, socialism does not believe in individual freedom or personal agency/autonomy.
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  126. No. He's the richest politician on Earth.
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  127. Courtesy of its own government. Central planning is just not a sustainable way of running an economy in 2024.
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  128. Not at all.
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  129. They support socialism because they think they're going to be the ones in charge and reaping the benefits.
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  130. <who believes in a different ideology > The same "different" ideology that has consistently produced tyranny and misery for all except those in charge in the 100-plus years it has been practiced. There is nothing wrong with her criticizing anyone who believes in such ideology as they're either ignorant, naive or have aspirations to become the ones in charge.
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  131. Even a junkie at a cheap motel has better living conditions than that.
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  132. They have been co-opted and corrupted.
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  133. Which communism advocates.
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  134. Also employee salaries.
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  135. They as in the ZANU-PF party. Mugabe, family, friends and other Party members had no problem eating.
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  136. By nationalization.
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  137. Or Tanzania under Nyerere. Or Ethiopia under Mengistu being the perennial poster buy for African famine. Or Zimbabwe under Mugabe.
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  138. Government meddling.
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  139. <Cubans are far much better than South Africans in many spheres of life > Yeah! So much better that they'd much rather be homeless and/or dead in the US than continue living in squalor and repression back home.
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  140. Bureaucracy.
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  141. Due to pride and ego. Everything else are just manifestations.
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  142. <A:India is Democracy + Capitalism but still very POOR & backward. > India unofficially practiced socialism from its independence 1947 to 1993.
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  143. In the West, it's called crabs in the barrel.
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  144. Just like the unions broke the UK under Callaghan and the Labour Party.
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  145. And numerous countries left in ruin politically, economically, socially and spiritually.
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  146. <Zimbabwe economy was destroyed by sanctions. > Sanctions were not the reason why Zimbabwe couldn't feed itself. Mugabe took the land away from the white farmers and gave them to political friends and subsistence farmers who were in no position to pick up where the white farmers left off causing production declines, food shortages and eventual famine along with the land gone to waste.
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  147. Exactly.
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  148. Or even Ghanaians when Nkrumah forced farmers to sell their produce for peanuts.
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  149. Socialism = power to the state.
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  150. Not as many as socialism disenfranchised. Never mind how many countries it left bankrupt in its wake.
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  151. Xi was a bad choice of leader as he's taking China back to the Mao era.
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  152. 4:14 Notice how Kim Jong-Un is the only fat person in the entire country?
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  153. Because Cuba has been ruled since 1959 by its own version of the EFF in the form of the PCC.
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  154. No. Cuba is poor because of the Cuban government.
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  155. Or the countless amount of countries that socialism left bankrupt.
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  156. <And socialism in Cuba is vastly different from socialism in Singapore or again, Sweden.> Singapore actually allows free markets while Cuba doesn't.
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  157. LOL. Evil is older than the white race.
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  158. <Most of south Africa's land is in white hands.> Who happen to be what's keeping the country afloat.
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  159.  @halalisanimasikane9606  LOL. Sure you don't.
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  160. Exactly.
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  161. <He wants everyone to share everything that he created, > Under threat of death and/or dispossession?
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  162. But socialism is even worse. Capitalism is the reason SA didn't go the way of Zimbabwe, Ethiopia.
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  163. Unfettered capitalism still pales in comparison to unfettered socialism. There are far more countries that haven't recovered from 1991 than 2008.
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  164. LOL. Haiti post-Revolution did exactly that only to end up starving having to re-instate slavery just to feed itself again.
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  165.  @Bullet-Content  <illegal sanctions> A cheap cop-out for tyranny and economic repression by the Cuban government.
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  166.  @dilochetty9332  The only embargo going on in Cuba is that by the Cuban government against its own citizens.
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  167. <Cuba is under Sanctions from the US,> Cuba also gets remittances and food aid from the US.
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  168. Well-stated.
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  169. Exactly.
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  170. Because they love their handouts and reminders of how they were liberated from their previous oppressors at the expense of economic sustainability and their freedom under their current "liberators."
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  171. Pretty much.
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  172. 13:32 But Jesus did all of that at his own expense while many socialists advocate for some entity to rob "the rich" to help out "the poor."
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  173. It actually worked in Seychelles. But even Seychelles moved on from it for capitalism.
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  174. Africa is a lot more socialist than it lets on. Even leaders who supposedly support capitalism love socialism due to the unrestricted power and control it grants them over the economy and in turn the people. It figures why politics is the #1 industry.
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  175. And the Marxist system empowers the state, not the people.
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  176. Sanctions are not a valid excuse for tyranny and mismanagement.
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  177.  @cefasfah85  Cuba's infrastructure is falling apart. Cuba cannot feed itself without US food aid and remittances.
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  178. Socialism all but completely bankrupted Sweden in the 70's and it had to privatize a lot of its industries in the 80's.
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  179. Socialism = slavery/indentured servitude to the state.
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  180. Pretty much.
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  181. <systems that works for all..> That just do not exist. Some will always do better than others. <Whites and coconuts are arrogant and detached from the reality of the poor. > Not completely as some of the poor brought the poverty upon themselves and serve as an example of who you don't want to be or end up like. due to ignorance, complacency, etc.
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  182. To escape the consequences of the ANC policies they once happily voted for and unfortunately vote for the same things that caused them to flee in the first place.
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  183. There was a reason. Pharoah's hubris.
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  184. Pretty much.
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  185. Ditto for private healthcare.
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  186.  @100percent12  <This is because the already capitalist countries will not allow this to happen (google Sankara) > For every Sankara, there's Mengistu.
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  187. Implementation was never the problem with socialism or communism. It's the results they have consistently produced that's the problem. Tyranny, poverty and the very same inequality capitalism is accused of with the government and well-connected = 1% and everyone else = 99%. Inequality is natural as humans are not the same and cannot achieve the same things.
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  188. They also account for most of the wealth produced, jobs created and taxes paid in South Africa. It's amazing how South Africa hasn't collapsed yet with the minority carrying the country on their backs.
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  189. And have to rely on outsiders for aid.
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  190. What American sanctions? SA hasn't been under sanctions since the early 1990's.
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  191. Due to envy and ego.
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  192. But where in the Bible did he advocate any taking from "the rich" to give to "poor?" Plus, socialism is based on envy and entitlement which are condemned in the Bible. Remember the Commandment "thou shall not covet?"
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  193. The only sanctions against Cuba are from the Cuban government. Cuba still gets business from the US with food aid and remittances. <You must totally go there to see the effect of US sanctions against them. > Which are minor in comparison to the Cuban central planning which has deprived Cuban citizens the right to make an honest living.
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  194. He loves the capitalist system, because personally benefits from it.
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  195. <Cuba was just trying to free themselves from US Imperialism> Only to subject themselves to Russian/Soviet imperialism. And like every other vassal state after 1991, Cuba collapsed.
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  196. But they're more likely to get held to account and fired than doctors and nurses in state-run hospitals whose jobs are protected by unions and unrestricted access to the national treasury.
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  197. Just to impress people we don't like.
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  198.  @the_antiquark  And buildings falling apart.
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  199. The Cuban system is bad as it's dependent on foreign aid. Castro destroyed whatever local industry it had.
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  200. Live within your means.
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  201. Christianity also rejects covetousness. Socialism regards any and every want and need "a basic human right" that those who have are forced against their will to provide.
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  202. <None of the former member countries practices Communism anymore.> They're either mixed economies or kleptocracies.
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  203. Exactly.
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  204. <africa is what it is because of untalented people and so-called mao zedong fanboys > Like Mobutu.
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  205.  @m......7984  Exactly.
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  206. < how can you deliver when You don't Have the necessary resources to run and manage what you don't own?> Even if you do own the means of production, how do you deliver when you don't have the expertise or acumen to run and manage them in an efficient and profitable manner much less are able to take on the responsibilities of ownership?
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  207. But collective greed = repression and regression.
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  208.  @riddeledcorpse8996  He who feeds you controls you. (c) Thomas Sankara.
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  209.  @ciro_costa  I see you don't value freedom as much as you value "free" stuff if it means letting whoever's providing it have their way with you in exchange.
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  210.  @ciro_costa  LOL.
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  211. <Plus you can't read pro capitalists articles and except to get unbiased information about socialism...> Just like you can't read pro-socialist articles and expect to get unbiased information about capitalism. It's amusing to see biased people accusing others of bias.
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  212. Democratic socialism in practice.
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  213.  @JacoMalherbe  <That is a sign of a useless incompetent and inferior government.> Which is a reflection of the ignorant, gullible and delusional populace that elected it.
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  214. Exactly.
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  215. LOL. Africa barely has any capitalism. Africa is more socialist than it lets on.
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  216. The USSR was imperialist. Imperialism is neutral.
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  217. <Similarly, comparing Elon Musk to an average South African isn't entirely fair because his skin color alone gives him certain advantages.> Like what? If it's about skin color, how come other White South Africans didn't achieve what he achieved while granted the same privileges?
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  218. Exactly. Because the socialist is not known for being efficient or competent at producing food or jobs.
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  219. And end up like post-independence Haiti which had to reinstate slavery just to feed itself, because most people couldn't farm and the land went to waste.
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  220. Lenin had a term for those people. Useful idiots.
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  221. Fascism is communism's offspring.
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  222. Social programs and public services =/= socialism. <You seem to keep forgetting that in order to develop a country you need social (SOCIALIST) programs such as free education/food/money/housing for the poor in order to have tax payers as well as a working population in the future.> No. To develop a country, what you need is economic development and an environment that allow people to earn an honest living as either entrepreneurs or workers.
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  223. Just see Zimbabwe under Mugabe for example.
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  224.  @badge5575  Yet produce the same results. Bet it communist Ethiopia under Mengistu or socialist Tanzania under Nyerere.
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  225. Socialism being everything capitalism is accused of and then some.
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  226. Also: Francisco Macias Nguema (Equatorial Guinea) Mohamed Siad Barre (Somalia) Mobutu Sese Seko (DRC/Zaire) don't let the US support fool you. He wasn't anti-communist. He was just anti-USSR as he idolized Mao and adopted Chinese-styled communism.
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  227. It's easier to be a socialist in a free society than free in a socialist one.
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  228.  @GamingGardeningAndLayingSiege  <Communism has killed millions, and socialism has ruined quality of life in every country it has been inplimented in.> Including Tanzania, Madagascar, Zimbabwe.
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  229. Are the EFF in power? <Cuba does not face difficulty because of sanctions and not because of their policies?> It's because of its own policies Cuba cannot feed itself and have to rely on imports from interestingly the very same US. Also, the people are not legally allowed to farm unless they hand over 80% of what they produce to the government.
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  230. The embargos are nothing as Cuba gets most of its food and remittances from the US..
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  231. With Xi taking it back to the Mao era.
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  232. And in turn put themselves at the mercy of whoever's providing them that handout when they're not resorting to something unlawful, illegal or immoral for survival.
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  233. But SA is currently run by communist ANC.
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  234. Along with 48% of its population being functionally illiterate.
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  235. Capitalism is good in spite of its dark side as it's consistent with humanity in general. <They literally treat their people like slaves, especially the immigrants.> Yet the immigrants went to the USA by choice as apparently being a "slave" in the USA beats being supposedly free in their home countries where instability, corruption, tyranny backwardness and hopelessness reign with socialism practiced at varying degrees.
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  236. Communism is the problem. <Cuba Is a better country than South Africa, Cuba has a better Educational System and Medical Services > Yet Cubans much rather be homeless in South Africa than continue living in squalor and tyranny back home. <South Korea is not a perfect country> Yet it's still light years ahead of North Korea.
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  237. What caused you to leave that one black firm?
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  238. Its good sides are undermined by its bad sides.
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  239. Tanzania, Madagascar, Mongolia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, East Germany, Poland, Benin.
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  240. LOL. You'd be saying the same thing about Jesus if he was here as he received more love and support from outsiders than his own people.
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  241. Exactly.
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  242. But Jesus did all that at his own expense. Nothing was taken from anyone just to feed the other.
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  243.  @amanda273-v3i  Exactly. <Just creates more poverty.> Communists do not know how to create wealth, They just know how to steal from, live off of and kill those who do. And to top it off, "free" money does not last.
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  244.  @CitizenConcerned  Pretty much.
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  245. Like Tanzania under Nyerere, Ethiopia under Mengistu or Zimbabwe under Mugabe.
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  246. Blacks make up 80% of SA's population.
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  247. <Communism is a system that seeks to put people at the center of their own and countries' development. > Namely government bureaucrats.
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  248. No. China adopted capitalist reforms and liberalize its economy under Deng.
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  249.  @maadtee6281  Only after the communism was ditched for capitalism.
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  250. People who vote for liars and criminals are not victims but accomplices.
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