This thread makes me lol though. I love it when communists/socialists try to make things work in a real economic model.
Yeah, like the current economic model is perfect (US government having to take socialist measures to prevent their economy from collapsing).
Better for Freeriders (read: bankers)
Ha ha, the bankers certainly are doing very well. The current system is horrible, but I think the Soviet Union showed that it (the current system) is still better than a State-run communist system. Perhaps not for much longer. End the Fed.
People from the Americas always refer to the USSR as THE model for communism, which was horrible in its implementation as a communist system. They also don't consider what happened before the red revolutions that led to the development of communist system. You see the same patterns coming back these days (just like the return of fascism in Europe). History is repeating itself.