[DerbyX]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Haiti was not and is not a 'free market paradise'. It was and is, to a great extent, anarchic and where anarchy doesn't reign it's corrupt officials and gang bosses who do.

A 'free market paradise' was Hong Kong from the 1970's to 1997.

Haiti and Somalia were free market paradises. They were capitalist dreams where no government regulations prevented the market from doing what it wanted.

Admittedly this point is intended for Proculation and his theories on socialism and capitalism.

Government rules and regulations enable society to function yet all I hear is how the government should not be allowed to regulate/control the markets.

Just like thinking communism will fall in Cuba by allowing greater private business you are posting the erroneous belief that only communism is a totalitarian state. Communism, socialism, and capitalism can exist at various levels. If communism/socialism is defined as complete government control then capitalism is defined only as no government control whatsoever, hence the analogy is correct.

Where communism/socialism fails is when the government controls too much and where capitalism fails is when the government controls to little.

A equitable balance between the 2 is what we need and if they find that balance but still call themselves communists or socialists then more power to them.

[BartSimpson]

DerbyX DerbyX:

Where communism/socialism fails is when the government controls too much and where capitalism fails is when the government controls to little.

I can agree with that.

[xerxes]

commanderkai commanderkai:

xerxes xerxes:

They managed to survive after they lost their sugar daddy in the USSR.

By opening up resorts to Canadian and European tourists.

True. The Cubans also quickly reorganized their agricultural industry as well. Before the fall of the USSR, Cuba grew sugarcane almost exclusively as the Soviets payed them an inflated price for it. After they left, Cuba diversified its crops and managed to avoid a disaster.

That is, to say apart from the perpetual disaster that Communists economies are.