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Originally posted by count66
reply to post by justsomeboreddude
Even if I accepted your hypothesis which I don't - how do you then explain the greater ownership of the worlds wealth by the 10% of the worlds population?
Originally posted by count66
reply to post by thrustbucket
Why true anarchy?
Originally posted by count66
I hope that things work out for you when you do.
Unfortunately though you will find that to get anywhere you will first have to get into vast amounts of debt to finance your undertaking - a lot of your earnings will then go towards the financing of this debt.
Originally posted by SGTChas
reply to post by John Matrix
While I can appreciate your intellectual exercise of discussing the pros and cons of living under communism, I wonder if you have ever even traveled to a former communist country? I spent almost three years traveling what was the former USSR, and I can tell you from personal experience that the ravages suffered by former communist is beyond American comprehension. There is no more anti-communist then those who have suffered through the long night of Marxism; it saps the human soul and kills the spark of creativity of those who are chained by its false utopian hopes and equally false promise of the end of the problems that plague humanity.
It must be remembered that the only difference between socialist and communist are that communist use guns, and often. The terror of the “midnight knock on the door” and the grieving of the families of the ‘disappeared’ are not the exception in such societies as “absolute power corrupts absolutely”; when the ‘state’ is supreme and human life has no value other than as it is valued by the state, a quick death is the preferable end.