Auto,

The reason I only made response to one point in your post was quite simply due to the fact that all the other points you made had already been answered in my previous one.

They all lump together in the category of "blame the system for our own individual faults".

If I believed, as you apparently do, that the whole human race was too stupid and gullible to be held responsible for its own individual actions, I believe I would cease to care what happened to it.

As to the millionaire/billionaire point, of course I didn't think that the money was gifted from one lot to the next. I was simply pointing out the naivete of believing that communist states had no rich/privileged class.

The rulers in any authoritarian system live as well as any capitalists, but generally the lower orders are considerably worse off than in capitalist states, where opportunity for advancement also exists.

As has been said before, judge a state by the number of people who are prepared to die to get out, and so called socialist states don't stack up at all well. Just look at the queues of people at Sangat awaiting a chance to sneak INTO our capitalist state.

Don T.