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Originally posted by Sexual Harassment Panda
Thanks, but I'm comfortable where I am. Spanky's assertion was that communism never leads to elections, authoritarianism does, and by implication a higher standard of living, a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage. I never argued with his examples. My point, which you obviously missed, is that I don't see any correlation between the philosphy of a regime and quality of life. Communistic regimes perpetrated horrific crimes. So did non-communistic authoritarian regimes. Some communistic regimes are doing better than some authoritarian regimes in some measures. Some authoritarian regimes have a long history of no free elections (Singapore), but the people are in general doing okay. The correlation isn't there.
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I think you have a warped view of "doing okay". In my mind, you cannot massacre 18% of your population, and then claim economic prosperity. I think you have to factor the massacre in. I guess I still just take too much personal offence at anyone's assertion that we should just move on from the 18% in VN or the 27% in C. So, chalk this one up to being my problem.
Plus, if you look at the historical numbers, there is a direct correlation between moving to socialism/communism, and moving downwards economically, if that was your point.
