Quote Originally Posted by HoreTore View Post
No, it still won't work. The reason it won't work is that the great ideas are achieved through debate and differing opinions. And that won't exist in a dictatorship. While they might achieve success in the beginning, every dictatorship is bound to fail eventually, as they run out of ideas, and those few ideas they will have are bound to be implemented the wrong way. Three examples:

- Nazi Germany. Initial success, Hitler bumped Germany's economy out of recession, and the early conquests of France, Norway, etc. were a great success. But then he invaded Russia. And he did so badly, because nobody dared to propose anything different to what he wanted to do, and as such the invasion was poorly planned and catastrophic defeat.
- Zimbabwe. Robert Mugabe gained power, and quickly established proper education and health care for everyone, thus ensuring that all zimbabweans were able to read. But then he ran out of ideas, and mostly remained inactive.... Until he finally implemented his land reform in a truly idiotic fashion, resulting in a economy in ruins.
- Cuba. They have great healthcare and education. That was implemented in the first years after the revolution. There haven't been much progress since that time.
One could argue that it has always worked, succesfull society's where the central government doesn't interfere with local issues aren't that hard to find, quite the contrary, the makeup of the central government isn't necesarily a factor.