Re: The greatest human tragedy of all time
Infrastructure? Hostpitals? Literacy rates? All wonderful, and all dependent on being propped up by two failing states. When Russia collapsed, what happened to all that great stuff?
Well Literacy rates in Cuba continue thier high standards to this day, also considering thier financial situation they have a pretty good medical system, to the point where a capitalist south american country used thier experienced medical staff to benefit its own country. All this is paticular impressive when you consider that thanks to american policy they are all but cut off from trade..
East and West Germany.
I wonder how foriegn investment vary's here... did russia have its own marshall plan for eastern europe ?
Russia and the US.
Well that seems like a fair comparison, don't forget that industry across europe was destroyed on a massive scale whereas american industry was relatively unaffected, this is one of the reasons it did so well after 1945, another reason is american industry was much quicker to convert back to producing consumer goods whereas capitalist and communist european countries were much slower to convert thier industry back... im not sure why....
If you're trying to argue that it is anything more than a failed economic system, my friends history and economy theory need to have a word with you.
History shows capitalism failing many times until more modern times... thankfully there weren't people around then who said look at all these examples from the past the system obviously doesn't work... whereas infact what the system needed was perfecting over the years...
You've got a poor guy with a mule. Capitalism offers him a brand new - and sizzling btw - Audi R8. Communism offers him an 80's era Kia Krap. Add to that that the Kia's engine doesn't function correctly and will eventually fall apart.
What you have there cannot be described as a poor guy... hell im a poor guy wheres capitalism with my sizzling audi r8!
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