Freedom has nothing to do with wealth.
Said like a true elitist who believes that the poor deserve to be poor while the rich deserve to be rich.. Why? Because they're better..
I'll tell you what GST.. why don't you try and enjoy your freedom when you're a slave to hunger, disease, despotism, and all of those other plagues of the undeveloped, but "free" world.
What you don't realize is that wealth, ie.. money, equates to financial and economic security. And that security gives people the ability to be free from fear.
There's a damn good reason that almost all states with middle classes have thriving democracies. It because most of them have sufficient money not be overly intimidated by a tyrannical government.
None of this has anything to do with the core issue of their freedom. Without freedom from foreign domination, nothing else matters much. Being free of foreign domination was the necessary first step for them -- and they took it. I congratulate them for it.
Give us a friggin' break. You're quite the historical revisionist, as well as being a prolific Marxist apologist.
You claim foreign domination on one side, yet UTTERLY IGNORE the foreign domination that was being perpetrated by Vietnamese Marxists trained in a foreign socio-political ideology JUST AS STRANGE as democratic capitalism.
And the Vietnamese REMAINED dominated by the USSR, upon whom they relied upon for weapons and economic aid, leasing Kam Ranh Bay out of the Soviet Navy, and continuing to dominate and control Laos.
And what did they get for their alliance with the USSR? A crumbling economy led by leaders FAR MORE CORRUPT than anything the French or the US ever supported, and the opportunity to jealously watch EVERYONE of their neighboring countries enjoy economic growth.
Most simply consign themselves to the reality that they no longer know Vietnam and no longer play any role in the life of Vietnam -- and they are no longer Vietnamese.
So they weren't entitled to be "free", I guess??
What a marxist schmuck you are..
I suggest you dropped your Dialectic Materialist studies and pick up a copy of "The Mystery of Capital" by Hernando De Soto.
Hawk |
