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In reply to the discussion: Now Venezuela is running out of toilet paper [View all]TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)show us where a communist or radical socialist economy has ever worked anywhere in history on this planet.
Elements of socialism are necessary and work perfectly well when asshole (usually conservative, but not always) politicians don't screw them up, but when you take it too far you run up against the will and wants of the people you intended to help.
The socialist ideal becomes merely another ego and power trip, no better than mercantilism.
Really now, a whole country running out of toilet paper? And now they crow about importing 50 million rolls to solve what they say is a phony shortage? And people defend these assholes because they claim to work for the poor? The poor who can't wipe their asses thanks to them?
Oh, wait, it was the oligarchs waiting in the wings causing all this just to make them look bad...