Friday, October 2, 2009

Capitalism v socialism

This is an excellent editorial by Russian émigré, Svetlana Kunin.

In the USSR, economic equality was achieved by redistributing wealth, ensuring that everyone remained poor, with the exception of those doing the redistributing. Only the ruling class of communist leaders had access to special stores, medicine and accommodations that could compare to those in the West.


http://www.liberalorder.com/2009/09/socialism-v-capitalism.html#trackback

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