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[dwa]

"...the current ongoing famine in North Korea, the various 5 year plans of Stalin's Soviet Union and Mao's PRC, are not anomolies, there are the inevitable result of implementing socialism."

I suppose I missed the part where any of that happened in, say, Sweden.

Might I point out that those were totalitarian nations with enormous class and wealth disparity prior to their revolutions, and whose governments have always been despotic, whether devotedly capitalist, communist, or otherwise?

Jester

I guess you missed that whole time during the 90's when Sweden's economy was in the tank, which was not resolved until government restrictions were lessened and the government took great measures to cap spending on social services.

In re: "those were totalitarian nations with enormous class and wealth disparity prior to their revolutions..." does not answer why conditions worsened so drastically when socialists dictated how the economy was to be run. It also doesn't deal with the fact that the USSR (the only one of the three to both remain socialist and lose it's tyrants) continued to fail, miserably, even after Stalin's death. I am also curious to how you square away the claim of "whose governments have always been despotic, whether devotedly capitalist, communist, or otherwise?" in regards to Korea; the only despots prior to the division post WW2 were the Japanese.