[Sussex] Long live the banana republic!

[john]

On Friday 06 Jun 2003 11:04 am, Steve Dobson wrote:

> I agree, there is nothing wrong with the ideas of socialism, but the
> best known implementation (Russian Communism) was flawed and failed.
> Note that China has a different implementation and that is not suffering
> the same.  They are allowing some of the ideas of western capitalism
> to operate their.

Sorry Steve, but I will dispute that, the most successful implementation of 
communism is probably Fidel Castro's CUBA.

Though I seem to recall that Senor Castro has admitted that communism in any 
form, needs capitalism to survive (who else is there to buy their cigars and 
rum - yum yum!)

regards

John