[geeks] what is the world coming to...

[Mike Meredith]

On Thursday 11 April 2002 05:23, Andrew Weiss wrote:
> On Wednesday, April 10, 2002, at 10:12 PM, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> >   17. You have to believe that the only reason socialism hasn't worked
> > anywhere it's been tried, is because the right people haven't been in
> > charge.
>
> It has worked many times until Capitalism and IMF/Worldbank came in and
> squashed it by funding bandits whose only purpose was to slowly erode

To be fair, the SU was doing pretty much the same thing.

> Case in point...still working... Sweden and several others I'm
> forgetting.

Like most of the countries in *Western* Europe at one time or another ? In
Europe, relatively few people start foaming at the mouth when they hear the
word "socialist" and from time to time socialist governments get elected. And
yes, they get booted out from time to time.

But they leave things behind ... like (in the UK) universal free education,
universal free health care, a public-sector broadcaster that's widely
considered to be quite good (the BBC).