Communism/Socialism - No Excuses

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Originally Posted by Emil Miller

This discussion reminds me of an old joke as to what's wrong with communism.

Communist: ' Comes the revolution and we will all be driving a Rolls Royce .'

Non communist: 'But I don't want to drive a Rolls Royce.'

Communist: 'Comes the revolution you will do as you're told.'

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Heh heh.

This thread reminds me of the old Cold War joke: With Capitalism, man exploits man; but with Communism, it's the other way around.

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Originally Posted by Michael T

Not sure what you mean Kev67, because if Capitalism isn't the most perfect system ever for allowing "sociopaths, those with high intelligence, high risk taking personalities, and high self-regarding attitudes" to get to the top, then I'll eat my hat!

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Yeh capitalism is so terrible... we've only seen living standards improve for the general population and working classes at an unprecedented rate, never equalled in all of human history.