[mhh__]

Why? If I organise enough people to vote to end subsidies like those featured in the article, I have created communism?

What is practised in the west isn't even along a socialism-capitalism axis, it's just corruption. That is a problem in any society held together by words.

[AnimalMuppet]

Why is corruption a problem specifically in a society held together by words? In what kind of society wouldn't it be a problem?

[mhh__]

The remark was mostly to point out that we can and should aim for better, but we don't.

I'm a bit drunk so excuse any poor oracy