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Isn't it strange that every truly socialist/communist government has disintegrated? Must be something to that free-market stuff after all
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Communism only really 'works' effectively if it's worldwide. That is one of the things which make it highly unlikely to succeed, given the likelihood of getting all the world's countries to accomodate it. It's also one of the reasons that I don't think a truly 'communist' state has actually existed. There was a period of 'pre communism' in Russia during the early stages of the revolution, a rift already forming/formed between two entirely different approaches and visions. That was quickly followed by a distortion of the original goals and ideals. China, similarly operated along distorted lines as indeed have most(possibly all) systems claiming to be 'communist' or 'socialist'.
The fact is that communism and socialism exist in their pure form only in the realm of theory. Attempts to implement them have either been softened or distorted to the point that they no longer bear close relation to theory from which they were derived.