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Re: De: I said: Capitalism AT LEAST AS CURRENTLY PRACTICED lt SUCKS. Socialism does, too.

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As I understand it, no matter how much grain the Russian farmers produced, the govt would only allow them to keep what the russisan government thought they needed. Tis no wonder they could somehow never produce enough.




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Re: De: I said: Capitalism >>AT LEAST AS CURRENTLY PRACTICED<< SUCKS. "Socialism" does, too."
By: Zimbler0
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Fri, 23 Sep 22 12:21 AM
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Foz > If capitalism is simply having multiple vendors selling in the marketplaces then the USSR had multiple vendors in many markets, so when the USSR failed it was a failure of capitalism.


The USSR was a 'command economy' . . . NOT capitalistic.

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The economy of the Soviet Union was based on state ownership of the means of production, collective farming, and industrial manufacturing.An administrative-command system managed a distinctive form of central planning.

Wikipedia
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One problem that the old Soviets had was the inability to induce Russian 'farmers' to produce enough grain. So they had to buy American grain.

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October 2, 1981

The Reagan administration agreed today to provide an additional 15 million tons of grain to the Soviet Union over the next 12 months, boosting to a record level the availability of American wheat and corn to offset a poor harvest here.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1981/10/02/us-soviets-set-grain-deal-providing-for-record-sales/2897af69-319e-4dad-8f90-a1c3c5b9f42b/
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