Egypt - Army seizes power.

[Rahul]

The 3rd picture shows Korean shopping district, probably in south Korea, but could just as well be in Korea town in Los Angeles.

Yeah, it's a picture of South Korea, but it could also be in the capitalist country of the US. Show me a comparable picture in North Korea.

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If one wishes want to sterotype most people in communist countries as inevitably deprived and miserable, then one needs to explain why the sort of scene depicted in 3rd and 4th picture, presumable being used to represent abundance and happiness, is most certainly easy to find in china.

Because China has embraced private industry. Moving away from hardcore communism. Freaking duh.

Yet, what is communist and what is not, usually depends not on state propaganda or politics, but on facts that deal with the economic organization of society. In a truly communist state there are no private owners, the land is collectivized, and the state, which is supposedly an expression of collective will, regulates economic activity channelling capitals and investments were they are supposedly most needed.

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In 1999, in "communist" China, more than 20 million people were employed by private enterprises and the contribution of private sector to the industrial output was 73.5%. (2) The state run newspaper "China Daily" reported last summer (2010) that private sector provides 90% of the new jobs in China and quoted Vice Minister Zhong Youping who said that the country had 7.55 million private companies at the end of March 2010, up almost 14 percent year-on-year, with total registered capital exceeding 15 trillion yuan ($2.2 trillion), up 26.9 percent.

[Anomalocaris]

Yeah, so you are admitting so called communist countries are in fact a very diverse lot, some proving very capable of adroit economic management that takes advantage of much of the strength of market forces long thought to be the private preserves of western, particularly Anglo-American style, capitalism, yet without relinquishing the much of the strong authoritarian central direction that otherwise would have been ridiculed by American conservatives as "socialist"?

So that taking advantage of the power of market forces is in fact not nearly as incompatible with central economic authoritarianism as we have been told to think?

[Minimalist]

Islam brings government guidance to the masses.

That is exactly the problem.

[Rahul]

Yeah, so you are admitting so called communist countries are in fact a very diverse lot, some proving very capable of adroit economic management that takes advantage of much of the strength of market forces long thought to be the private preserves of western, particularly Anglo-American style, capitalism, yet without relinquishing the much of the strong authoritarian central direction that otherwise would have been ridiculed by American conservatives as "socialist"?

So that taking advantage of the power of market forces is in fact not nearly as incompatible with central economic authoritarianism as we have been told to think?

No. I'm saying that if a communist country starts moving away from total communism and adopts capitalist economic strategies they start to flourish.

[cratehorus]

North Korea and South Korea have one thing in common: They're both poor as fuck.

It's just South Korea hides it behind a mountain of credit debt, and North Korea is open about it.

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As far as Egypt goes...*sighs* Yeah...I'm not surprised.

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let's just kill everyone who isn't communist, anyone who is muslim christian or whatever should be killed

Seriously, you are the biggest fucking waste of bandwidth on this forum, and considering some of the others on this forum, that's saying a mouthful as big as the jolly green giant's condom size.

lol waste of bandwith........... seriously i would tell you what lame peice of shit you are but im afraid you'll respond with another 15 paragraph reiterative post nobody but you can bare too read..... seriously dude this website isn't your diary