On 4/13/2010 10:18 PM, Damaeus wrote:
> In news:rec.food.cooking, "J. > posted on
> Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:29:30 -0400 the following:
>
>> Dameus, read Marx. You aren't proposing anything new. The way it
>> worked out in the real world was that nobody got paid enough and
>> everybody was overworked and quality sucked and the whole mess finally
>> collapsed under its own weight. Of course you'll claim "that was
>> different".
>
> Well, it *was* different. We have records of what went on in those times,
> and we simply avoid the mistakes that lead to its collapse, like war. If
> you're spending resources on destroying someone else, or building weapons
> to defend yourself from being destroyed, you aren't improving life. You're
> just surviving.

Who wanted to "destroy" any Communist country from 1945 on?