I hate to flog a dead horse but we've never had a decent implimentation of communism. All the biggies have replaced religion with hero worship, the cult of the leader, something i doubt marx would ahve liked. If Trotsky ahd evened up in change....
I do agree that communist economies don't work though, there is no motivation for the workers. Look at Vietnam, when they finally gave the land back to the peasents rather than collectives production went though the roof.
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As an aside, placing the fate of your country in the hands of stockholders and company boards is suicidal: stockholders have only one interest, share profits; thus company directors will do whatever it takes to produce profits, with often-disastrous results. The liberal-market right has sneered for years at attempts to place restraints on the 'free market'; the results have been unchecked excesses that have brought the US (and by proxy much of the world's economy) to the brink of disaster. Bush is signing company-control laws that two years ago would have been met with derisive laughter by pretty much anyone on the right.
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Exactly. When the motive is profit everything is short term too, which carries its own dangers too.