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Originally Posted by Flame Of Liberty
Are you really comparing the west and totalitarian regimes all around the world? I'll be the first on this board to pile on a western democracy, but sweet mother of relativism...
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No, I'm just trying to point out the "West is best, everyone else who isn't like us just don't know better" attitude is elitist and ethnocentric. From some of the posts, it seems to me some feel when it comes to government, there's only the Western way, and the evil way, which is simply not true.
As to the whole argument of why people would rather have state owned vs. privately owned. Believe it or not, some people actually like having the security of a state owned business rather than being driven out of business by merciless private corporations in their pursuit for the all mighty dollar.
All I'm saying is, when it comes to govenment, there's more than one way to do it if done right. I'm not denying that corruption warps the ideal of a communist regime. But if done right, it can also be a viable system, especially trying to govern a nation with 1.5 billion people.