JBeukema
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When you are so poor that every person in the family needs to work, union-imposed sanctions are a death sentence
Except that's not what happened in the USA or England
Malaysia's problems stem in large part from the lack of meaningful democracy
Exactly. Democracy. Not socialism.
You don't know what those words mean, do you?
communism, like republicanism, and also many forms of socialism (some would argue all true forms of socialism) is a democratic system
You don't seem to grasp the difference between democratic type and Democracy (form)
That's if you're dealing with socialism as a form. Then there's socialism as a stage of scoioeconomic development.
For example: The US was founded as a Republic (form), which is a democratic (type) system- in this case, representative, as opposed to direct, democracy. It is a socialist (stage of development) society, as evidenced by social security, the VA, food stamps, collective fire companies, the Interstate, urban electrification, various market regulations, the Clean Air and Water acts and everything else that separates us from modern China.