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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (151186)9/9/2002 7:56:18 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1586737
 
Tim, in reality the USSR was neither socialist nor communist, it was a typical dictatorship, nothing more nothing less.

Being a dictatorship has nothing to do with it one way or another. Socialism and communism are economic systems. A dictatorship is a political system.

So would Cuba putting in open air markets with lots of free enterprise products in the center of Havana, make it a capitalist nation?

The real world is not as neat and tidy as theories can be. No country is or ever has been 100% capitalist or 100% socialist/communist. Cuba has become more capitalist but most of its productive capacity is still owned by the state and the state exerts a lot of control over the relativly small amount of private industry so no Cuba is not capitalist. I suppose to be accurate you could give it a number on a scale rather then one term. It would take a lot of work to figure out exactly what numbers I would give different countries but on a scale of 0 to 100 with 100 being pure capitalism and 0 being no capitalism/pure socialism, North Korea would be above zero but very low and lower then Cuba, Sweden would be a lot higher then Cuba, although obviously lower then much of Western Europe let alone the US.

Dictatorships are famous for rewriting the principle laws of the
universe........why not political/economic theories as well.

Your original point, which you repeat in this post was that they called themselves communists. But they called themselves socialists. The DDR called themselves democratic. Of course that doesn't mean they where democratic. The fact that the USSR called itself socialist doesn't mean that it was. It was but it was not that way because of its name.

Tim
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