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it's never been tried

In Reply to: Heres whats wrong with communism posted by Mike Sprout on November 28, 1997 at 21:12:37:

> For all you anticapitalists out there, I ask, can you name any successful
> communist societies globally or historically?

Excuse me, but why do you say that no communist society has ever succeeded? I thought that we had long since cleared up this arguement, but I'll say it one more time: TRUE COMMUNISM/SOCIALISM HAS NEVER BEFORE BEEN TRIED. I don't think that anyone is arguing that China, Russa, E.Europe, etc are good examples to follow. True communists and socialists realize that those countries messed up somewhere along the way, and never got around to implementing a REAL communist society. So please don't use the 'it hasn't worked before' arguement, as no one is arguing THAT. What we're saying is that real communism/socialism has yet to be tried, but needs to. Thank you. I hope I've finally cleared this up!!!

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