[nickpp]

> Altruism isnt necessary, education is.

Communists tried so hard to educate us into the "New Man". For the betterment of all mankind, of course.

Of course, ignoring human nature tuned the whole "experiment" into a huge, predictable failure.

[palmetieri2000]

And seeing Soviet Russian Communism as the only possible form of socialism is shortsighted and foolish.

[nickpp]

Communism failed everywhere was tried. Countries held as socialism success stories are either oil-rich (Norway) or got rich under capitalism then managed to stunt that growth with a hard left turn (Western Europe). They then fell way behind free-market economies and became dependent and vulnerable to Russian expansion-through-cheap-energy.