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@jdubo1998 No it isn't. Was Castro equal to the average citizen he condemned to squalor?
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<people use to live really A LOT better in USSR than in US and any other capitalist country.> Which lasted for a brief period of time. The problem with communism is that whatever success it does achieve is often short-lived requiring tyranny, foreign aid or reforms to sustain itself.
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Poverty is a symptom and consequence.
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Not really. Not everyone's interested in inbreeding or living like them.
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@ExpatriatePaul Collectivism = stagnation and tyranny.
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<Going left wing or asking for more government control is dangerous, communism killed 60 million people out of starvation, soviets went to deep poverty and so did the Chinese when they applied those ideals.> Also communism left every other country bankrupt.
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Like Somalia post-Barre? It had a moneyless (no formal economy), stateless (no functioning government) and classless (just warlords, pirates, goat-herders and ordinary folk) society.
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Ditto for Cuba.
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@iampiyushsingh7544 Communism failed even on a small scale.
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@shamrock141 Actually it doesn't. And who's we?
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LOL. So how did they manage to keep a high military budget and prop up its vassal states?
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Like in Cuba?
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@dropyourself But she was right.
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Only for you to be the first to want out. Even communism has inequality.
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Who's the rich?
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With an actual 1% and 99% left-wingers love to bemoan. The 1% being the government and well-connected and the 99% being everyone else.
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Only to stagnate, regress and eventually die out in the long run.
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Eh. No. Plus the wealthiest Muslim countries are nothing without foreign labor and US military protection.
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@miaotsetung Marx barely worked a day in his life and lived off of other people.
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Tax havens are consequences of government meddling.
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The USA has little on South Africa.
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