17 Aug 07
Originally posted by FMFWhat's happening there is their economy is in free fall. If not for the increased demand for oil, this tin dictator would have already been toppled by now.
Oh? Haven't you been following what's been going on in Venezuela for the last 9 years? Your bald assertion makes it seem like you might not actually be all that interested in what's happening.
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Originally posted by der schwarze RitterThis is true. One can look to India as an example. India used to be the sweatshop of the IT industry. Now they are experiencing rising wages and software companies in India are finding it a challenge to keep existing employees and find new ones. In other words it has become an employees market. And of course you hear people on this forum talk about how India and China are the two great emerging economies and it's true but look at how they started.
What's happening there is their economy is in free fall. If not for the increased demand for oil, this tin dictator would have already been toppled by now.
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17 Aug 07
Originally posted by der schwarze RitterSocialism? The people on this forum have gone way beyond that. We're talking flat out communism on this site or at least anti-capitalism. I don't know where the socialists are. Personally I think any reasonably functional society/government has got to be a balance between capitalism and socialism anyhow. Maintaining the correct balance is tough but doable. The lefties on this site simply want to denounce capitalism as the root and cause of all evil and hand the world over to left wing dictators under the guise of some unacheivable communist nirvana.
I'm constantly amazed that so many Europeans, and increasingly, Americans, still view socialism in a favorable light, even after it has been proven repeatedly by history and practice to be the inferior economic system.
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Originally posted by UllrInteresting.
Socialism? The people on this forum have gone way beyond that. We're talking flat out communism on this site or at least anti-capitalism. I don't know where the socialists are. Personally I think any reasonably functional society/government has got to be a balance between capitalism and socialism anyhow. Maintaining the correct balance is tough but doable. ...[text shortened]... the world over to left wing dictators under the guise of some unacheivable communist nirvana.
Since my university years 30 yrs ago, I have been arguing with friends about this topic, and kept wondering if there could be a particular personality type that finds communism appealing or one that likes capitalism. Now I think I can simplify it down to a single sentence (annoying to some people) ---
Lazy people like communism and hardworking and productive people like capitalism.
A gross generalisation, I know, but it still has some truth to it.
17 Aug 07
Originally posted by der schwarze RitterAtheism did not result from Marxism. Where did you get that idea?
I believe atheism, which resulted from Marxism, caused the defeat of the U.S.S.R. in the Cold War. Marxism, socialism, communalism, etc., takes everything that is meaningful in life: God, family, work, etc., and turns it into a nightmare that is contrary to the spirit of man. Anyone advocating socialism in this day in age is a nincompoop in light ...[text shortened]... of basic economic theory, i.e., like the great mass of unwashed on the RHP Discussion forum.
17 Aug 07
Originally posted by AThousandYoungI'm making the assumption that it doesn't really mean the way it reads.
I'd like to hear an argument about why atheism destroyed the USSR.
I think it's suppose to mean that Marxists/socialists hid behind atheism much the same way some angry communists currently hide as anarchists.
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Originally posted by MerkNo, it's supposed to be a parody of my thread about Christianity and Rome. I want to point out that my thread has arguments that are supported by fact, whereas this thread does not.
I'm making the assumption that it doesn't really mean the way it reads.
I think it's suppose to mean that Marxists/socialists hid behind atheism much the same way some angry communists currently hide as anarchists.