[GOPJ]

Communism doesn't worked the way Marx said it would... It fails in the real world.

Every place it's tried, thugs are pushed forward to run things and the people are poor with a boot on their neck.

The only time communist countries aren't poor is when they've allowed some capitalism to offset the stupidity of a command economy.

[cripplecreek]

The only time communist countries aren't poor is when they've allowed some capitalism to offset the stupidity of a command economy.

Vietnam is an interesting example. After all the blood sweat and tears poured into that place they still couldn't quite kill the black market and the communists went broke trying. Today that have what they call a socialism based free market because the communists don't want to admit that they lost in the long run. As I understand it most of the economy is capitalistic with a few strategic industries being nationalized.