Ask him to explain the failure of the Whitlam government in Australia (a subject near and dear to the hearts of ALL Australian Marxists LOL). Remember mark, "Wolfie" isn't an American.
CW ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ohio mark" <[email protected]> To: "PoliticalForum" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2009 08:02 Subject: Re: hey lone wolf, prove it so let's review. marxism collapses in on itself after a few decades, while capitalism in this country has flourished for over 200 yrs. On Jan 24, 7:52 am, "\"Lone Wolf\"" <[email protected]> wrote: > In the meantime whether or not Marxism has failed or not does not > alter the fact that capitalism is a miserable failure. I like to use > empirical facts rather than rhetorical nonsense. Infact I only oppose > capitalism because of objective reseach. This is not a stupid > ideological battle between capitalism and communism. I dont support > the regimes of Russia and China --they were not Marxist. I dont expect > anyone to take my word for it. Anyone who does their own investigation > would find the same thing that I did. > > • The wealthiest 10% of the world’s population accounted for 59% of > total private consumption > • The wealthiest 20% of the world’s population accounted for 76.6% of > total private consumption > • The poorest fifth of the world’s population accounted for just 1.5% > of total private consumption > • The poorest 10% of the world’s population accounted for just 0.5% of > total private consumption > • At least 80% of humanity lives on less than $10 a day > • The poorest 40 percent of the world’s population accounts for 5 > percent of global income. > • The richest 20 percent accounts for three-quarters of world income > • In 2005, the world’s billionaires, about 500 people (approx > 0.000008% of the world’s population) were worth $3.5 trillion (over 7% > of world GDP) > • In 2004 the total wealth of the richest 8.3 million people increased > by 8.2% to $30.8 trillion, giving them control of nearly one quarter > of the world’s financial assets. In other words about 0.13% of the > world’s population controlled 25% of the world’s assets > • From 1960 to 1997 the average income of the wealthiest 20% of the > population in the developed countries went from 30 times that of the > median income to 74 times median income > An analysis of long-term trends showing the distance between the > richest and poorest countries > • 3 to 1 in 1820 > • 11 to 1 in 1913 > • 35 to 1 in 1950 > • 44 to 1 in 1973 > • 72 to 1 in 1992 > > On Jan 24, 11:04 pm, Ohio mark <[email protected]> wrote: > > > come on wolfy, show us just one example of where your marxist > > socialism has worked. one example where the masses were lifted up and > > the rich were brought down. one example where your utopia has > > worked. ty;l`a 1 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
