On 6/09/2021 10:38 am, *Ördög* wrote:
> It was written by Fran:
>
> / This post was AI autocleaned to remove some virulent retarded troll
> poster inputs /
>
>> Daniel65
>>> Ördög
>>>>
>>>> Meddling in foreign countries far away from your own w/o ever
>>>> understanding the culture and mentality of people living there was
>>>> never going to be successful.
>>>
>>>
>>> Umm!! How about Cuba?? They're Communist aren't they??
>>
>> You'd be better off asking Ordog that question. The LNP troll doesn't
>> know enough about political theory to know.
>
> So far no country has ever claimed to be actually communist.

You mean other than by co-opting the use of the name? :-))

I think I'd just call Cuba 'authoritarian' and forget any mention of
communism or socialism.

They
> declared/declare that they were/are either working towards socialism or
> were/are outright socialists (with their own special version of it like
> China did for instance) and were/are supposedly working for the ultimate
> goal of one day in the distant future becoming communist.

Yeah and never once achieve it.... But then I've become a bit hazy over
the past few decades about the difference between utopian communism and
just plain old communism.
>
> In the practice so far, these are all one party authoritarian states
> implementing varying degrees of state capitalism, while also
> accommodating varying degrees of coexistence with private businesses from
> small to large within defined limits dictated by their governments.
> Today's China is a prime example of such hybrid socioeconomic construct.

Yep. And isn't it interesting watching it at the moment?
>
> North Korea represent a category of its own as in reality it has reverted
> back to semi feudal absolutism under the Kim dynasty. In truth, that is
> neither socialist nor communist, nowhere near either of these.

:-))
>
> Of course, the US has labelled all of them "communists", if for no better
> reason, then just providing the politically ignorant masses a scary label
> they can be paranoid about at their hearts content while swallowing any
> and all abuses they are subjected to by their own hard-capitalists
> controlled state governments.

Yep. The use of the propaganda brush...

Petzl wrote on 17/8/21 9:47 am:
> On Tue, 17 Aug 2021 09:03:48 +1000, James Last plays in Miami <no
> spam@no spam.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 17 Aug 2021 08:14:00 +1000, Petzl posted:-
>>
>>> How much did China give Joe Biden for doing it?
>>
>> For doing what?
>>
> More Daniel65 trolling
> You don't know much about Biden then.

Hey, Petzl, when did I come into this discussion??
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Daniel