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- as apposed to socialism:
1. You've been dumbed down by public education systemhotroddy - 2. You've been indoctrinated by state owned mediahotroddy
- 3. Limit personal freedom and thought control.hotroddy
- 4. You have no drugs because big pharma is no longer. Get used to medicine shortages and long lineshotroddy
- 5. If you haven't noticed true socialist republics turn totalitarian with an elite, corrupt ruling political class.hotroddy
- Many Cubans and Venezuelans you can talk to in miami if you don't believe me.hotroddy
- Sounds like modern day capitalism is to me.utopian
- 6. A vile Pig is your leader_niko
- this is supposed to be a democracy ha********
- it's a republicGnash
- hotroddy, socialis education is so "dumb" that Cupa exports doctors; its media is so indoctrinating that noone believes the state propaganda news and laughs...pr2
- ...at the art produced under social realism. YOU know absolutely NOTHING about socialism beyond some half-baked uninformed platitudes.pr2
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- anyone that talks about "socialism" brands themselves as an uneducated, lazy and sold-out pawn. There will never be "socialism" in the US.formed
- It's a waste of a breath to say that, but with so many lazy people that just lap up the propaganda all we can do is try to guide them back to reality.formed
- you're the immune elite who survived and, now has to expose this scary truth********
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- pr2. i know nothing about socialism but watched my family and country destroyed by it.hotroddy
- and those 'doctors' are treated like slaves & 'exported' like cheap cigars. and used like pawns for political clout.hotroddy
- irony here is you live in most capitalistic city in the world, with countless benefits you surely take for granted, and pretend we know nothing about socialismhotroddy
- hotrod, pick up a book or two instead of spewing slogans. You owe it to your family to completely understand where they are coming from.pr2
- i come from ex-socialist country too that's why i've armed myself with a mountain of books abut Marxism, Leninism, diaries of Che...pr2
- because I don't want to base my view of the system and reasons why my country is "ex" based on someone's slogans.pr2
- books like The Gulag Archipelago?Gnash
- Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski's "World Apart" = MUCH MUCH better than "Gulag Archipelago" (and way shorter too) or ...pr2
- ...Kolakowski's "Main Currents of Marxism" (thug be prepared as this book is over 1000 pages).pr2
- haven't read them. although, once i read Solzhenitsyn's I meant to read Herlings account but never got around to it.Gnash
- once you get into the russians it's hard to branch out - so much to read, new translations all the time.Gnash
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- pr2 - i can use your same argument and tell you to pick up a book written by milton friedman.hotroddy
- But save your self the time. Just look at real world applications of both systems. Any thing can sound good in theory!hotroddy
- as apposed to socialism: