Capitalism Much More Successful Than Democracy In Helping Poor Thrid-World Countries
Supply Sider
best illustration.
Capitalism recently has been an astonishing success in raising the
standard and quality of life
of the Chinese, yet the country is far from being a democratic country.
It is now no longer
Marxist or Communist but still very authoritative with its central
government holding autocratic and absolute power. India has been a
democracy of sorts since gaining independence in 1947 but
poverty prevailed. Only recently since turning to capitalism has India
begun to raise its
people's standard of living and quality of life.
Palestine, to the contrary has a democracy. The Hammas party was freely
and fairly
elected yet the tiny country is an enonomic and social mess. In
contrast tiny Hong Kong
was a not a democracy prior to its takeover by China in 1997. It was a
colony of Great
Britain yet had thriving economy and its citizens were among the most
prosperous in
the world. Also the city state of Singapore is not really a democracy,
yet is a model and thriving capitalist country. the envy of any Third
World nation. It authoritative government has turned what was a
chaotic, crime- ridden and anarchic mess in the 1950s into a thriving
capitalist powerhouse.
Several of the world's worst governments have been democratically
elected. Adolph Hitler's
Nazis in 1933 came to power through democratic elections. Hugo Chavez's
government
in Venezueal would be another example. And Nicaragua in a free election
is once again about to turn its government over to the discredited
Marxist Sandanistas.
In a Financial Post column by Montreal economist Peter Foster titled
"Capitalism First, Then
Democracy" the author quotes a recent book "Ethical Realism" by Arnold
Lieven and
John Hulsman who suggest that in trying to bring democracy to Iraq the
U.S. has made
the most "glaringly naive" error of the war against Muslim jihadism.
Instead of "democratic
peace" what the U.S. should have striven for was "capitalist peace".
Igor
Supply Sider wrote:
> There is much evidence of this in the world today. China would be the
> best illustration.
> Capitalism recently has been an astonishing success in raising the
> standard and quality of life
> of the Chinese, yet the country is far from being a democratic country.
> It is now no longer
> Marxist or Communist but still very authoritative with its central
> government holding autocratic and absolute power.
You might want to explain that to the folks in Bejing. They still call
themselves Communists. Funny thing too is that THEY OWN YOUR ASS!!!!!
.
Supply Sider
NonPa...@ThinkForYourself.net wrote:
> On 16 Nov 2006 04:55:47 -0800, "Supply Sider" <cice...@rogers.com> wrote:
>
> >There is much evidence of this in the world today. China would be the
> >best illustration.
> >Capitalism recently has been an astonishing success in raising the
> >standard and quality of life
> >of the Chinese, yet the country is far from being a democratic country.
> >It is now no longer
> >Marxist or Communist but still very authoritative with its central
> >government holding autocratic and absolute power.
>
No, Mussolini, who was a Marxist and Communist, coined the word
"fascist".
Fascists are socialists like you, asshole.