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Originally Posted by cginok

Using someone from Yugoslavia as your benchmark for communism is, quite frankly, wrong. Yugoslavia, though a communist country, was not under the boot heel of the USSR. The people in Yugoslavia had more freedoms, more openness, more access to Western people and goods, than the people in most other communist countries. Your Polish friend being proof of that.

I've always thought that the problem with communism is that it caters to one of the most basic urges of humanity, laziness.(...)

I've always thought that the problem with capitalism is that it caters to one of the most basic urges of humanity, greed.(...)

The Vietnamese must've noticed the same, hence they introduced the 'doi moi' (some 30 years ago) and injected some capitalism in their communism.