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Originally Posted by Douglas G. Brown
Mr. Baurle, the combination of your focus on socialism paired with your seeming lack understanding of its actual workings and forms making your posts a bit strained.
My Vietnamese ex wife and her extended family of about 35 people had their fill of the "actual workings" of socialism from 1975 to the middle of 1980, when they got on a leaky boat and headed out to sea. They have since had much better lives in Canada, France, the USA, Australia, and New Zealand.
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Exactly.
Emitt,
I think socialism can work on a small scale, as in tribal societies, and in things like work farms and communes, but it has been proven to fail time and time again when tried in large, industrialized populations. It has cost millions and millions of lives, and has caused untold suffering and deprivation. It isn't that it's good in theory, but hasn't been put into practice correctly. It is rotten in theory, which is why it fails in practice.
And hey, I'm not exactly the first guy to have noticed this! Hello!
Von Mises predicted that Marxism would be a total disaster, in 1922.