Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "How Do We Test Capitalism vs Communism?" video.

  1. Juan Domingo Peron.
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  2. Post-Pinochet is among the top 10 wealthiest countries in the Americas.
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  3. <NK was sanctioned by the US> Yet received Soviet aid.
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  4.  @shorewall  Good PR with outsiders.
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  5. The loss of Soviet aid to compensate for Castro's wholesale decimation of domestic industry did far more damage to Cuba than any US sanction. Vietnam hasn't been under sanctions since 1985 as it long adopted capitalist reforms and moved on. Venezuela? See 2014 through 2016.
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  6.  @ronald3836  Because the USSR did not allow individual freedom and everyone only existed to serve the Kremlin.
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  7. Most of Venezuela's problems are home-grown. Sanctions are not a valid excuse as somehow it had no problem prospering with the oil prices being high in 2011 and 12.
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  8. <The North was instead blockaded and forced to be isolated by those same "open armies."> The North had the USSR and China for allies. It wasn't the South's fault the North squandered all the aid.
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  9.  @damiendeecee  Exactly.
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  10.  @tz7609  And oil production actually started falling under Chavez.
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  11. For the former Soviet states, they either collapsed as well (Ethiopia), adopted capitalist reforms (Mongolia) or isolated itself from the world (all the Central Asian Soviet Bloc).
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  12.  @KrolPawi  <There never truly was a communist democracy> And for good reason. Remember the USSR in the late 80's or Yugoslavia after Tito died?
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  13. Yes they did. Just the government ones, though.
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  14. <What we never tried is giving everything to...well...everyone? Such as the case of economic systems based on communal, decentralized ownership,> That is just not sustainable as many will squander what was given to them becoming a burden and threat to those who wisely saved and grew their resources.
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  15. It's not sanctions by America, but the loss of Soviet aid and Kim's economic repression on his own citizens.
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  16. Starting with you.
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  17. GDP per capita-wise, North Korea is poorer than all but 7 African countries.
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  18. <whereas NK has been sanctioned ever since> NK was funded by the USSR and China. SK put that US aid to good use while NK pissed away the Soviet and Chinese aid.
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  19. The UK = another country socialism all but completely destroyed thanks to the Labour Party that preceded Thatcher.
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  20. Exactly.
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  21. <Norway is not.> Does Norway have a far-left America-hating megalomaniac in charge?
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  22. That and also communism/socialism is just not sustainable without massive repression and subsidies. Notice that every other country that adopted communism/socialism either collapsed or reformed?
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  23. <Again Norway isn't under US sanctions.> Because Norway doesn't have a far-left America-hater in charge.
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