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1 Maja - Pochód, Labour Day in Old Poland [28]
USSR and satellites were not socialist regimes, possibly at the very beginning of the 1917 revolution this was an idea but it quickly degenerated.
They did run the country using communist model of economy, this was a disaster. Sure they were not very idealistic however Menshevicks are to large extend responsible for helping them to gain the power. Whether they would be idealist or not, we already know that this does not work and this is everything what we need to know about this ideology.
That's why well organized religions stay away from governing.
Please follow them!
For examples of socialism one should look at the Scandinavia.
This is a myth, avoiding paying taxes is a "national sport" in Sweden, recently we could read about Swedish ministers employing people illegally. M. Moore made a film about health system and praised Norwegian model while our Norwegian member here wrote that we should not trust him. Socialists need such legend thus they make up Scandinavian model. Scandinavian countries became socialist already when they were wealthy and currently they waste their wealth. Simply late technological progress allows them to rule longer but soon they will collapse anyway. One cannot be wealthy forever if he waste its resources only.
it seems to me that capitalism isn't fairing much better right now either.
Where do you see this capitalism? In euro-socialist Europe or the US which follow their model?
yup. communisms too.
What is so great? Communism was illogical before and always remain illogical.
There is no other, the only thing working man brings to the market is his labour
Wrong, he bring his money.
would workers be forced to compete against each other, the price of their labour will drop to the level of subsistence.
Competition is a key of technological progress which constantly raise standard of living of average family. Competition cause not only smaller wages but also smaller price of produced goods that all those people need. At the times when the US was a capitalist country Americans owned more cars per capita than people in socialist Europe exactly because cars were cheap.
I assume you live in America
I live in Poland.
You may also choose to fool yourself thinking that possessing some unique and in demand skill will guarantee you high wages. If you are one of the few lucky ones be aware that someone is looking very hard to either eliminate need for your skill, bring replacement, take your job somewhere else, or take need for this skill somewhere else. If you think that being self employed provides you security you are mistaken as well, the above reasons apply as well.
This is simply your obsession.