On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 LizR <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> In practice Communism was evil but in theory it was just stupid >> >> > Almost as stupid as capitalism, > The defining characteristic of stupid is that stupid doesn't work, so regardless of what you may personally think of capitalism's ethics (and there is no disputing matters of taste) the fact remains that if capitalism was stupider than communism then it wouldn't have won the 40 year long face to face confrontation with it. And compared with the monstrous horrors of communism the worst crime of the most unethical corporation on the planet is little more than naughty. > > which is currently delivering 99% of the world into slavery > The human race has never been more numerous than it is right now, or been better fed or been better educated or been more peaceful. Oh, or had fewer slaves. > > and destroying the planet at a rate of knots. > And there has never been less disease and people have never been healthier or had longer lives. I guess destroying the planet can be fun! And by the way, the most polluted places on Earth are in the former USSR, China and eastern European countries that were behind the Iron Curtain. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
