"""Socialism and communism are no less likely to encourage corruption to flourish than capitalism"


Oh yes they are!!......If led by someone perceived to be incorruptible.....This does not apply under Capitalism where everyone is expected to be very corruptible, especially our leaders!""

You may be ENTITLED to shout Ake, but I would be wary of exercising that right if I, like you, had just made the single most stupid comment of the decade.

Rabid anti capitalist that you are, you cannot possibly BELIEVE that there can be incorruptible people ONLY in non capitalist societies, nor that only capitalist societies are subject to corruption.


With the evidence of Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Mau Tse Tung, Mugabe, Amin to advance, I would say your argument is easily shot full of holes.

If there are corrupt men in Washington, there are the same in Beijing and North Korea. If there are incorruptible men in the world, the same applies. They can be anywhere in any political scene including Washington, and that is the irrefutable fact.

I have left the United Kingdom out of this assessment, as we have the dubious distinction of having a totally corrupt government. So corrupt in fact that it professes to be socialist, and isn't apparently aware that it is as capitalist as was Thatcher.

I'm not interested in the outcome of this futile discussion, which will change NO minds, as ever. I do however like to point out nonsense when it is offered masquerading as truth.

Don T.