While it amazes me I am also wondering how are they carrying around all that material or are these cliff-hanging camps pre-installed.
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@Atlas, I didn't get alert for your post in the 'Not a single Hindu woman...' thread thread because you must have replied to me very soon after you replied to fitpOsitive so the two posts merged and didn't generate an alert for me. Below is your question :
1. I don't understand this popular trend of celebrating the mythical "Nordic social welfare system". Can you please describe how it works and what it offers to the people ?
2. Below is the Google result for a simple description of Communism :
Do you not think it is a worthwhile idea ? Now the USSR started with a desire to achieve all of that but in its 69 years of existence it didn't achieve. For example it had governance through a party system as against Communism's desire of "Withering away of the State" where governance ability will be in hands of the masses directly instead of being ruled by a prime minister or president, any type of boss. USSR had a PM-style boss system. Another example is that USSR didn't manage to eliminate continuance of the traditional money system though it seems that there weren't that much of socio-economic deprivations as in the Capitalist countries like USA, India and Pakistan. But the USSR was a good platform for many of the world's leftists hoping for a better, advanced and evolved human society. Now there was one country in modern times which realized Communism's goal of a society governed by the people directly and it also being a socio-economically progressive one. The society was the Libyan Jamahiriya i.e. Libya until 2011 and I think if the USSR had existed now it would have adapted Libya's Jamahiriya direct democracy concept the same way Hugo Chavez of Venezuela adapted that system for his country. Please read
this post of mine on democracy, its origin, what it is not and an article section about Libya, and please also read the post's thread on how the Jamahiriya system is technically and how it can be applied to India or Bangladesh. And please read
this thread of mine on my proposal for a partly Communist socio-economic system which though has a money system - an evolved money system but - it manages to realize another goal of Communism i.e. elimination of socio-economic classes ( rich, middle, poor ). The evolved money system is there I suppose because there is now no machine that replicate goods at molecular level and make the item for free. But the two ideas can be applied to all of humanity.