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The polish people often have a gift of being able to see the future and the curse of being unable to change it.

I hope that communism ends up like Moism.

Traders?

Merchants and traders serve a vital role one that is worthy of respect, but at the same time you do have people who abuse their power, take their greed to far and other problems. You want people to be able to pursue a better life and be able to trade thats a good thing but you don't want people...

When you look at the shear amount of damage murder and mayhem communism caused Russia over the roughly three generations it was in control well chain letters have nothing on that shit.

Gold not every one we reason with is as smart as you are.

autarky has sub optimal outcomes when taken to the extreme. I mean in an Ideal world you have no trade barriers or subdisies and end up with maximized economic outcomes for all. Unfortantly ends up happening is that envitably some country cheats in order to get further ahead, or some one puts...

In other words every one has a plan until they get punched in the face. Capitalism, market economies their more nimble they have more redundency and they bounce back from shit faster.

Does any one remember what happened to said bronze age civilization? Because that collapse was paritcularly ugly.

going to have to third the option, the holodomor should be required reading for our student.

Lets see I go out and I work at a job, in exchange I get paid X amount of money, I can go out and use this money and exchange it for goods and services. If I do not like my job I can go out and get another one. Last time I checked my boss hasnt put a gut to my head to get me to do any of this...

No I am not letting you get away with this one. Every time we have a communist government we end up having the exact same problems. The soviet union was a horror show, Maoist china was a disaster, the killing fields of Cambodia were horrific, even the 'nicest' communist regiemes were...

Its been over a hundred years now. communism has been tried all over the world over and over again with the exact same results. Economic destruction and immolation, hunger, want, repression and death, at this point in time the excuse of ignorance or good intentions doesn't work any more. You...