Communism and the Left

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I've not really read the bulk of the content of this thread, but here's the bottom line. Over the last 100 years, there's been numerous communist countries. Without counting the Warsaw Pact countries as separate entities, as they really were not, we have off the top of my head:

USSR
China
N Korea
Vietnam
Laos
Cuba

Any of them good for their people in any way?

Not true communism? That's the only type communism that can exist when humans in large numbers get together. How many more great experiments do people need until they get it through their heads that collectivism on a government scale does not work?

Nazis only ruled for roughly 10-12 years and basically in 1.5 countries, not counting the occupied ones, naturally. The comparison is laughable. Communism is significantly more insidious and more difficult to root out. The open aggression of Germany basically guaranteed that the nazi party would not stay in power for more than a handful of years. The only way that communism could have been stamped out quickly, was if Stalin followed some of his generals' advice towards the end of WW2 and continued to march through Europe. He did not.

Naturally, capitalism is just as bad, or possibly worse.....





..... according to some of the brainier members here.