<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span>Really, what do you
make of this?</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span></span></font> <br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>No current system is perfect and everlasting, communism, capitalism or otherwise. I don't think any system which requires people to do something they don't wish or relies on exploiting another being as a permanent solution. These systems are simply biding their time until technology advances to a point that a true communism is possible. Communism in that sense being a society where individuals are free to do as they wish and do not require the exploitation of others to do so. I think Marx felt this way, although specific quotes elude me (It's been a number of years since I read his work).<br>
<br>I always looked at the Soviet Union as simply picking a model close to a hopeful end-state. Had technology progressed at a faster rate I'm not sure the collapse would have been inevitable, they could have simply evolved. I see the most technologically advanced societies the closest to achieving true communism.<br>
<br>I think Fidel has most of his heart in the right place, the world simply makes things more complicated.<br><br>-Tim<br></div></div>