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First of all, what are you comparing it too? And the USSR hardly went "BANKRUPT". Second, when will we see the progress? You wont see guaranteed education, health, employment etc under the Russian capitalists.

"According to a September-October 1998 study sponsored by the U.S. Information Agency, only 50 percent of Russian adults were employed and only a quarter of the so-called “employed” got paid with any regularity."

What do Russian unemployed have to look forward too? In the USSR it was full employment, in the USA there is an army of unemployed.
There are other examples.

The Soviet Union went bankrupt during the Cold War. That is why it collapsed.

Nothing is guarunteed under a pure, free market. That is, in many ways, the incentive to work. All that aside, I'm no market anarchist. I think basic education should be guarunteed, for example. The fact that Russia doesn't have it does not prove that capitalism did not work for Russia. They should have just maintained a public education system.

50% of Russian adults, eh? Could it be that, perhaps, the women are not working there? Could the lack of any regularity in payments be the fault of the police for not enforcing laws against fraud?

Army of unemployed? Yeah, right. Entitlement programs and the minimum wage have led to greater unemployment than the free market has. You aren't even considering retirees and those who willingly don't work, like strikers, or lazy-ass mofos who live on food stamps.

Yes, sure. But you sound like you have something up your sleeve! Enlighten me, please.

Do I really need to find a paper to tell you that the people were better off under the Czars?

Ignorance of the highest capacity. If you have read the original article, I might consider posting a rebuttal.

Care to inform me?

Because it is run by a extremely warped stalinist beuracracy ho relied on the USSR to feed the people. "Socialism in one country" does not work. But you also forget that in 1985 DPRK was the 20th richest country in the world. Also, you forget that it wass not through the good graces of the capitalists or the "superiority" of the capitalist system that has won the Western world its better living standards. It is through the hard won militant struggles of communists, socialists and unionists that finally forced the ruling class to smarten up and distribute the wealth a little bit more evenly throughout the system. Once the threat of full scale labour revolts in the mid-late 1800s and early 1900s did the working class finally gain its labour rights, and with labour rights rose the standard of living amongst the masses.

It was the industrial revolution that raised living standards in the Western world the fastest.

Ditto. If you want me to go into great depths about the bankruptcy of "Socialism in one country", I can. However, even I would rather be a worker in North America and be exploited by American big business, it is far better than being a worker in Asia and being exploited by American big business. China has opened it's bedsheets to let capitalists jump into bed to rape the victories of the Chinese revolution. I don't know alot about China in depth. I doubt you do either. I do know that a new elite is emerging, and I do know that severeal towns are literaly Ghost Towns with such high unemployment. So I am in doubt that the majority of workers in China are better off.

I find that hilarious. China's living standards have only increased since the move towards capitalism. That is why they have continued the movement.

For all you talk about using one country as an example, you sure do focus on the SU. Tell me: which, proportionally, has a better track record - capitalism or socialism?