Former Soviet Citizen Confronts Socialists at Occupy Wall Street (Part 3)

My 2 cents on Socialism, Communism and Capitalism.
1. There have never existed Socialist or Communist countries.
2. Countries that do use these words in the names of the countries or claim to have such system are ALL in reality Totalitarian Dictatorships.
3. There remain only 2 such countries today: North Korea and Cuba. The list used to include USSR, China, Vietnam, Poland, DDR, Czechoslovakia, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Cambodia, Laos, Mozambique, Angola and many more countries.
4. The best political litmus test to see what category the country belongs to is to see if its citizens can leave it freely: if you get a bullet in the back of your head trying (like crossing the Berlin Wall), it's a Totalitarian Dictatorship a.k.a. "Socialist" or "Communist".
5. Does capitalism fail in some countries? Yes! In what countries? Where the private property and intellectual property laws are lax and corruption is high.
6. Please check where your country belongs based on any of the 2 indexes that use different criteria: International Property Tax Index: http://www.internationalpropertyright... (top 3 in it are Finland, Sweden and Switzerland and the last 3 are Venezuela, Libya , Yemen but it excludes Cuba, North Korea) or Heritage Foundation's Index of Economic Freedoms: http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking (top 3 here are Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia and the last 3 are Cuba, Zimbabwe and North Korea.)
7. So please, don't do disservice to the Scandinavian countries by calling them "Socialist"...
You can learn all you need to know about the "socialized" medicine in USSR here:
http://www.mises.ca/posts/articles/th...

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[ssmusic214]

Total nonsense!

Who exactly anarchists "depend on"?

[2WorldWar2]

how the fuck are anarchists on extreme right? Because they believe in no government? thats not what the political spectrum is, I know many people believe that but its not true.

Extreme right would be Fascism.

Right wing characteristics are nationalism, militarism, self dependent.

Anarchy is complete opposite. They have no nationalism at all, dont believe in military, no family values, no tradition. Right wing means conservatism, and anarchy doesnt conserve any tradition whatsoever.

[crazymuffin222]

Anarchists are on the extreme right

[2WorldWar2]

No theyre not, they are bother far left.

In Italy communists, socialists, and anarchists all allied with each other because of similar ideology.

The amount of government control may be different, but they are both leftist ideas.

[2WorldWar2]

Amen brother

[bigrigbob2010]

In the peoples interests or their own? To control the people a government knows it must use force and coercion to achieve it's goals. The government has no right to make decisions for it's citizens in a free country. When the government owns your property, has you work keeps your wages to do with as they see fit, there is a word for that... SLAVERY !

[RadicalAwesomeness]

Because unrealistic expectations are bad for you. 

[JacksonDivilBiss]

"Tell 'im, Brendon!"

heh

[milesdotzauer]

How is it idealism for people to expect their government to make decisions in their interests?

[RadicalAwesomeness]

Idealism is retarded. These dumb kids need a good ol boot up the ass to snap them back to reality.