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In reply to the discussion: Capitalism vs Communism. [View all]Voltaire2
(12,995 posts)32. well except of course in China, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Cuba, North Korea
all of which are still marxist-leninist states, and combined account for around 20% of the world's population.
Also there are a lot of states that have some form of democratic socialism, I guess we won't count those either.
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Pick ANY functional state in the modern world. They are all socialist states in some ways...
hunter
Feb 2021
#41
We need capitalism with regulation...communism would never work and has never worked anywhere.
Demsrule86
Feb 2021
#24
Members of the Poliburo had vacation homes, limousines, and plenty of good food to eat.
Aristus
Feb 2021
#3
No we are not living under the Soviet system. The economic system is one giant grift for one man
Demsrule86
Feb 2021
#26
Soviet and Chinese Communism are not what Karl Marx wrote about, but totalitarian perversions.
TheBlackAdder
Feb 2021
#20
Nomadic hunter-gatherer societies had probably the closest antecedent to true Marxism.
Aristus
Feb 2021
#29
Neither does Libertarianism, but that won't stop those fools from professing it as legitimate. 😂
TheBlackAdder
Feb 2021
#30