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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. No matter how little I work, or how little effort I put out, I'll still be taken care of. No, I might not live a life of luxury, but at least I'll have some form of housing with adequate food and health care to survive.
I've always thought that the problem with capitalism is that it caters to one of the most basic urges of humanity, greed. So what if I have 10 mansions, 3 private jets, and a fleet of Italian sports cars, I need another freakin' Ferrari damnit and I don't care if I have to destroy thousands of people's lives to get it!!!
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As a venezuelan I totally agree with you in the second paragraph. The way I see it from my personal experience, communism has only worked for the lazy people who never cared to get a career or to improve their own ives by their own effort.
But I don't agree about your views about capitalism, that's the version of corporative capitalism from the US, but there's a healthy form of capitalism in which the free market improves the lives of the people while the rule of law will protect them from anyone who wants to crush them.
The scandinavian countries have mixed socialist policies with centre-right economics and they have achieved high standards of living.