[G. Adams]

</span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (castille,)
Under Communism, if there was no law, why work 10 hours a day for a loaf of bread when you can kill your neighbour and get it without working?


Those "poor countries" are NOT capitalist. Ironically, the majority of Third World countries are ruled by a military dicatatorship (socialism). Libya, Zimbabwe, former Iraq, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, etc are all ruled by socialistic governments, not democratic capitalist governments.<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>

Ahh man what bollocks. Those countries are not socialist, nor are there governments, regardless of what lies they produced in order to get the support needed to get into government.

I don't know enough about Libya to argue over it in particular, but

Zimbabwe-Socialism is colour blind, as is communism. Robert Mugabe isn't. He is pursuing nationalistic, racist agenda, neither of which are compatible with socialism.

Ba'athist Iraq-It was ran by a militaristic regime. A socialist regime cannot be run in such a way because of the limits on freedom. Secondly its government leeched off the people, also not compatible with a socialist regime.

Pakistan-Pakistand has been torn apart by civil war and has had little stability to develop itself. Its previous 'democratic' government was corrupt. It is currently run by Pervez Musharriff, who came to power through a military coup, and is not socialist, as his power base, the army, would not allow it.

Sierra Leone-What the hell? Sierra Leone has no real government, never mind a socialist one. It has been ripped apart by a civil war and diamond hunting mercs for the last 50 years.