On 01/30/2015 04:01 AM, Goran Novak wrote: > On 30/01/2015 11:40 AM, Mirimir wrote: >> >> With some exceptions (batshit crazy ideologues, for the most part) >> communism in practice has basically been kleptocracy. Ditto for >> democracy (whether capitalist or socialist). Powerful just distract >> sheeple in different ways. > Kleptocracy, alternatively cleptocracy or kleptarchy, (from Greek: > κλέπτης - kleptēs, "thief"[1] and κράτος - kratos, "power, rule",[2] > hence "rule by thieves") is a form of political and government > corruption where the government exists to increase the personal wealth > and political power of its officials and the ruling class at the expense > of the wider population, often with pretense of honest service. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptocracy > > Communism (from Latin communis – common, universal)[1][2] is a > socioeconomic system structured upon the common ownership of the means > of production and characterized by the absence of social classes, > money,[3][4] and the state; as well as a social, political and economic > ideology and movement that aims to establish this social order. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism > > Communism has not been ever put to practice.
Yes, that was my point. I should have said "alleged communism" and "alleged democracy". >>> The politicians are essentially the same IMHO. >> In my experience, yes. >> >>> It is hard for me to tell which implementation >>> sucks more. >> They all suck. So it goes. >> > >
