Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Strategies & Market Trends : Currencies and the Global Capital Markets -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas M. who wrote (3391)	6/4/2002 1:53:17 PM
From: Kenneth Kirk	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3536

The Cuban revolution was over 40 years ago! What kind of comparison is that? I'm sure I could take similar figures from before the Russian revolution in 1917, and make it look as though the Soviet Union was a huge success, at least until 1990 or so when it fell apart. Communism is a failed system. It doesn't work. It is based on false assumptions about the way things work and the reasons people do the things they do. That's why almost all communist countries have collapsed or changed to more-or-less free market systems. Cuba will eventually abandon communism. And the sooner, the better.

To: Thomas M. who wrote (3391)	6/4/2002 2:01:40 PM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3536

and the rat population -g-? Some part of me agrees with you. As a student I lived almost fee in Rome. The communists used to give out free food along with their propaganda. I read about those figures in Cuba. I found their books boring though and didn't buy any of them. I rejected the "science" out of hand. I must of been smart back then. If you have a large part of the population starving or dying early for various reasons...you can expect trouble. Cuba "happened". A demonstration that capitalism can fail too. France as well.