[ExI] Open Individualism

[efc at swisscows.email]

On Sun, 14 Jan 2024, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat wrote:

> Spike, if China can incorporate capitalism to some degree and still call themselves communists, why doesn't Russia do it? Or Cuba,
> North Korea, etc.   Purists?  bill w
>

My theory is that China has some kind of legal system, and it does have
some kind of decetranlization of power in the top of the party. As you
say, chinese are smart, and they learned that starving the people to
death can lead to revolutions.

Russia and North korea are more like kingdoms with a criminal as
king. There's no trust in those societies, and having everyone spying on
everyone is encourage. That is a bad environment for capitalism to grow.

I read in the news tha Cuba is opening up ever so lightly, and if that
is true, I would expect some positive changes for cuba.

Best regards, 
Daniel