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  1. Welfare is destructive.
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  2.  @emmanuelasiedu5590  <He knew all the colonial west was doing to keep Africa impoverished. He fought hard for African Unity. Had several assassination attempts on his life. Finally CIA succeeded in getting him overthrown. > Maybe, but he was done in by his own delusions of grandeur. And who needed the West when he did a far better job of impoverishing Ghana? If anything, Africa not uniting turned out be a blessing in disguise. Plus, even his own allies stopped supporting him once they saw through his facade.
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  3. And Engels was part of the bourgeoisie he denounced.
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  4. At least Nyerere was man to admit his policies destroyed the country before stepping down from power. Plus, Tanzania was one socialist country that the West largely left alone.
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  5.  @Prich319  <To Marx, the words "Jew" and "Capitalist" were synonymous and interchangeable.> Also to Hitler.
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  6.  @kimobrien.  At least capitalism can sustain itself and produce its own wealth.
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  7. Or Middle-Easterners. Or even Latinos.
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  8. Socialism ruined Ghana just like it ruined everywhere else in Africa aside from Seychelles.
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  9. Chavez, the Kim family, Dos Santos (his daughter under his watch became the richest woman in Africa), etc.
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  10. Exactly as LBJ intended.
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  11.  @waldolydecker8118  My family hasn't been on welfare since 1996.
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  12. And the result of a complacent society that has gotten too prosperous and liberal for its own good.
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  13. Basically a Kim Jong-un.
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  14. Exactly. Now you know how most dictatorships operate.
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  15.  @kimobrien.  Fidel Castro, son of wealthy landowners.
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  16.  @0228christian  Only after they ditched communism for capitalism once Mao died and Deng took over.
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  17. Maybe Pol Pot was onto something when had all the intellectuals sent off to the rice fields.
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  18.  @adam872  Or limousine liberals, caviar gauche, etc.
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  19. Security and comfort over freedom yet getting none.
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  20. Christianity also teaches not to covet what belongs to other people and earn your keep.
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  21. Well, rent control has done nothing except exacerbate the housing crisis with shortages, corporate buyouts and high rent for whatever's still available.
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  22. And thought he shouldn't have to pay back the people he borrowed from.
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  23.  @SoloRenegade  And a deadbeat father.
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  24. Of course you will. You're used to taking it like a good girl from big daddy government in exchange for "free" benefits.
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  25. Even by Marx's own admission.
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  26.  @kimobrien.  While socialism remains stuck in a rut with brief periods of prosperity due to the limitations of the system itself.
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  27. No. Especially if that individual is the reason why that person has a middle-class paying job.
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  28. Yet socialism has proven itself to be backward and regressive as an economic model.
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  29. And he connection with the working class didn't extend beyond overhearing 2 patrons telling each other how much they hated their day jobs.
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  30. China owes its prosperity to Deng's economic reforms.
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  31. <Rewarded how? Can capitalism reward poetic, artistic, musical, spiritual sensibility besides making it a commodity? A product? The big debate here is spiritual. Capital is a thing of the world, sure, but we also have spiritual needs that Capitalism is destroying, overlooking, deeming inferior just because it can't produce any material wealth.> Doing "what you love" is for kids and people who are not dependent on those hobbies as their primary way of supporting themselves, namely the well-off. So to put it mildly, no. LOL. Aren't most socialists atheist/agnostic? If so, then WTF do they care about spirituality? <If you can´t understand this, can you at least agree then that there are people who see the world in these terms, and always have been? > Only because they're bitter, delusional and think they're owed attention.
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  32. <socialism is “the workers have power” > Like post-Tito Yugoslavia? Needless to inform you that failed.
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  33.  @madkoala2130  Capitalism may have real problems, but socialism is a FALSE solution.
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  34. He became the rich he wanted to tax.
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  35. Well, every other country that adopted socialism had central planning.
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  36.  @tomster7574  Like George Ayittey (RIP)?
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  37. They were never really in touch to begin with.
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  38. <bloody French style revolution.> Resulting in the revolutionary becoming the oligarch and the people were no better off vindicating the previous oligarch. Revolutions eat their own.
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  39. USSR East Germany Poland Romania Bulgaria Czechoslovakia Hungary Albania China Mongolia North Korea Cambodia Vietnam Burma India Cape Verde Ethiopia Somalia Madagascar Tanzania Zimbabwe Angola Equatorial Guinea Guinea Benin Ghana Seychelles (the only country that succeeded with socialism) Burkina Faso Nicaragua Guyana Venezuela Cuba
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  40. Fascism is another form of socialism.
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  41. What decent human beings? Envious people are anything but decent. <Socialism is nothing but the old concept of loving your neighbor as yourself for modern times and nobody that knows anything about it is afraid of it. > LOL. By coveting everything he has just because you think you deserve it more more than him?
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  42. Yes he can as Marx's deeds and the legacy he left behind say all that needs to be said.
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  43. With support from Western leftists.
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  44. <they think the people are too stupid to be allowed to consent to their government.> They do have a point, though.
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  45. Bernie Sanders lived off of his then-GF before becoming a property-owning millionaire he wanted taxed.
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  46. And it figures why many of the older generation who lived in former communist regimes are so nostalgic about that era.
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  47. Especially left-wing politicians.
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  48.  @User-y9t7u  He also supported communism as he thought Black people were too stupid for capitalism.
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  49. Because they're too "educated" for that.
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  50. Because the Balkans are still ruled by communists in the form of ex-members, descendants and beneficiaries.
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