Comments by "the other Andrew" (@theotherandrew5540) on "Am I far left?" video.

  1. The structural weakness of the Soviet economy was centralisation. The idea was excellent, Soviet = meeting, the idea was to meet the needs of the people. The failure in practice was the tendency described much earlier by Lord Acton, “power tends to corrupt and absolute power to corrupt absolutely”. Centralisation centralised power … As we have seen brilliantly demonstrated over the past 14 years, centralisation of power leads to corruption. The remedy is … decentralisation of every aspect of government to the level of operation. Military needs to be central, medical services and schools need to be appropriate to local needs.
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  2.  @markwelch3564  Yes, bottom up, centre provides what is requested from the local region.
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  3. Relieving child poverty? How scandalous! But I love your detractors complements, Socialist! Marxist! I’d be proud to wear such labels.
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