I find it funny that two members who are from two different countries, both of which have tried a marxist/communist type of government are giving their input. Yet, as ecoli perfectly put it, the Western Left is naive about it and laughs them off, just saying that their counties "didnt do it right." Its NEVER worked, never will.
Flowerpower, I hear North Korea is great this time of year.
China, under Mao, was a dictatorship ( cult of personality/gang of four etc)
It is a republic, its in its name (the people's republic of china) The US is a republic.
Throughout history all republics fail. To reply that 'all governments fail' is a trite answer that tacitly admits no knowledge of political world history.
Communism is an ideal that probably ( as said) due to human nature, could never work as envisioned.
Democracy is the same, originally designed for a society of 5000 people.
A church was mentioned above. Would Jesus have been a capitalist or a socialist I ( rhetorically) wonder?
Revolutions happen when the people have nothing left to lose.
In France, or Russia, or China, or Cuba, or anywhere else , those revolutions didn't happen out of a clear blue sky, they happened because of massive inequality. Similar levels of inequality are being approached now globally, now with plutocrats instead of aristocrats. Why should the final results be any different if the path is the same?
Please tell me why someone can make 3.5$ mill an hour doing nothing except speculating is worth more to society that (i.e.
the doctor or nurse that brought each of us screaming into this world? or the guys that bake the daily bread or clear away the garbage? I wonder which of them society could do without for longer?