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Old 02-03-2007, 07:57 AM   #11
Griff
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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla View Post
In the end, the Vietnamese had to abandon communism in order to restore the nation to functionality. Marxism's approach to economics doesn't much coincide with how economics really works, and without a good economy, nothing works and life is terrible. Collectivism doesn't work and shouldn't be practiced.
You got this much right but you fail at being an anti-totalitarian by placing too little faith in a free market to leverage those other freedoms.
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