hello teribus. in replying to my post what do you keep banging on about soviet 'communism' for? if you tried really hard you may find about half a dozen folk in this country who have still not realised that that whole episode was a disgusting and lethal experiment. as was the system in russia before it and the one that has emerged in recent years. i used to like the slogan 'neither washington nor moscow but international socialism'while it's still broadly true for me moscow has little influence in the world these days apart from what their oligarchs and gansters can buy by selling off stolen state assets.
My post was about capitalism -do you really have no criticisms of it's various modern day applications around the world?

(i don't buy crackers - we lefties tend to be a bit sniffy about the more commercial aspects of the annual celebration of consumerism)