regent
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Many a student has said that same thing about education.Same shit, different day.Cuba has a totalitarian government and only one political party, the communist party. Hence; it is a blend of totalitarianism, communism and only self-described as socialist. Reality is that it is officially communist, not socialist.Cuba.Can you give an example of one of these socialist countries that brought about genocide and death to millions?Sounds more like you are the one who has not learned how socialism can work...
For all of Socialism's entire history, this has been it's mantra.... It CAN work... we just need to make a few tweaks! Each time, a new version is rolled out with high hopes and great aspirations... only to result in the same dismal failure and usually with genocide and death to millions. It has happened over and over again throughout history.
Of the fifteen or so types of socialism during Marx only one was a precursor to communism and that was Marx's Scientific Socialism. A few years after the Russian revolution the USSR dropped Scientific Socialism as the road to communism because it didn't work. Later the USSR will drop Marx's communism as an economic system because it didn't work.Can you give an example of one of these socialist countries that brought about genocide and death to millions?Sounds more like you are the one who has not learned how socialism can work...
For all of Socialism's entire history, this has been it's mantra.... It CAN work... we just need to make a few tweaks! Each time, a new version is rolled out with high hopes and great aspirations... only to result in the same dismal failure and usually with genocide and death to millions. It has happened over and over again throughout history.
Russia, China and Cambodia, to name three.
Now, I already know what your smug condescending meme will be... Oh, well those are communist countries and communism is not socialism! Am I right???
Socialism is merely the precursor to Communism. That's the sole purpose of Socialism... to bring forth Communism. Socialist nations are on their journey to become Communist nations. You see... the "Socialism isn't that bad" meme will be replaced with "Communism isn't that bad" and the march continues. And it's typically not until you are standing by that open ditch with a gun to your head that you realize this didn't turn out as well as you planned.