| Kasz216 said: What do you disagree with what he said about south african countries Akuma? That is what has caused a lot of countries problems afterall. |
I don't think the phenomenon he is talking about has anything to do with socialism. I don't think his example is at all relevant. I think it has to do with some unscrupulous people getting in power and then using that power to abuse their citizens. That has been happening for thousands of years before we even came up with the words capitalism or socialism. I mean even in a capitalist country the government holds the reigns of the military and the police. Do you honestly think if we elected a rogue leader in the United States that he couldn't do a lot of damage simply relying on military force?
An authoritarian dictator is a dictator whether you are in capitalist country or a socialist country. Was Nazi Germany socialist? Fascism is extremely different than socialism and is in many ways closer to capitalism. That didn't make Hitler a nicer guy.
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It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
