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SubJeff on 18/9/2006 at 17:14

Depends how you define fail. I was going to say that it's Stalinism that fails hard, and by extension communist dictatorships but hey Cuba and China guys (and yes, I know they are far from the same thing but both can be loosely dfeined as communist dictatorships) so I'm not reeeeally sure I can say that they fail.

Agent Monkeysee on 18/9/2006 at 19:52

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China didn't fail so much as drift away from the tenets of the Revolution. I wouldn't call that a successful application of the system though. They've had to change the system significantly in order to remain relevant. I don't think you can draw any conclusions from Cuba because the whole experiment was fucked by the American embargo.

SubJeff on 19/9/2006 at 07:39

And yet Cuba still exists as a great example of how even in a communist dictatorship you can have working healthcare and education systems.

As to China - one could argue the same of many so called capitalist states. The UK for example, with it's ridiculously lame and unfair socialist welfare system, is still classed as a capitalist country. All all of these examples go to show is that there really is no hardline capitalist, communist, socialist or whateverist system - all are a mix of everything to some degree, and that is what makes a cut and dried analysis of Animal Farm so frustrating to me.

Scots Taffer on 19/9/2006 at 07:57

Quote Posted by Subjective Effect

And yet Cuba still exists as a great example of how even in a communist dictatorship you can have working healthcare and education systems.

And college-educated hookers too, don't forget those.

SubJeff on 19/9/2006 at 08:05

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