17-year-old girl takes home top prize

Soviets weren't communists. Not in the true sense of the term. Marx would be appalled at the Stalinist regime.

 

Your agenda to bastardize his message is what's retarded.

 

HOLY CRAP! You people have destroyed the OP and disintegrated into a political discussion that in no way enhances the subject matter. Aren't you ashamed of yourselves? A 17 year old young lady creates an application to detect breast cancer 99% of the time, and all you are discussing is OBAMA and politics? WTH? I should lock this thread.

Hospital-ready: The 17-year-old combined the fields of biology and computer science, developing a computer program which diagnoses breast cancer tumors

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/a...agnosis-app-hospital-ready.html#ixzz21tTKF0Ns

 

Maybe Marx was hoping for more but the Soviet Union is what the world got as an example the workers paradise promised by Marxism.

Also we have North Korea, Cuba and few other miserable places that no one in their right mind would want to live in.

 

Please try harder to understand an argument before you criticize it. Otherwise, like here, you just seem like a dull normal.

 

Those aren't the kind of governments Marx advocated for...

 

What did you expect? Even the OP was politically charged with "lolobama" type (*)(*)(*)(*).

 

Yes, because Marx was a fool who thought it was possible for humans to create a perfect society if only the best and brightest were put in charge of everything.

 

Well, you might think he is a fool. I don't care about that. But conflating his philosophy with Stalinist and Maoist philosophy is just incorrect. That was my point.

 

Since everyone can do it on his own, according to the Repubs, why do they keep blaming the President for the poor economy? They should simply fix it themselves. Why do they want the government to help them?

 

The Soviet Union was a communist country based on Marxist ideas.

The problem is that Marxism does not work.

 

They weren't a communist country. Not the kind of communism that Marx talks about.

 

because a moderator needs to approve my post, I can't edit it! So I guess I will just doublepost.

Using Communism as a boogy-man does nothing to prove your point and does not make you look smarter. Economics and ideologies in general are more complex than "right" or "wrong." They have elements that work and elements that don't. They have elements that sorta work and elements that sorta don't work. Marxism (correct me if I am wrong, and I mean with credible sources) is all about the equal distribution of a countrie's wealth to everyone. In order to do this the government takes control of all bussinesses and services. The two main problems in reality are that the communist leaders often turn into ruthless dictators and Everyone ends up being poor but above the poverty line as opposed to middle-class.

Liberals, by definition, lean closer to the left side of the political scale. In theory this makes them communists and socialists. In most capitalist countries however, they are just socialists. Socialism is about taking the good ideas from communism (public welfare, public healthcare, etc.) and the good ideas from capitalism ( privately run businesses, supply and demand economy as opposed to a command economy, etc.) and combining them. I do realise "good" is a subjective term, but I am merely stating the ideas that would seem good to a certain audience. That audience being liberals. So can we cut the crap with this whole generic label of "communism" and "socialism" as being synonyms to "evil" and instead apply them for what they are. Systems of economic policies that you may or may not agree with.

 

Talk is cheap.

The actual examples of Marxism have been failures because they were based on unreasonable expectations that go against human nature.

 

What about the ones that weren't failures?

 

Such as?

 

Marx thought that communism would work in Germany because it was more advanced than Russia. However, the commie Jews were able to seize control of Russia and implemented communism there. The Germans squashed them when they tried to do it in Germany and implemented their own economic system.

 

A very smart young lady who has a bright and successful future ahead of her.

 

Other than public verses private ownership of the means of production there is not much difference between the communist and fascist economic model.

They both depend on an all-powerful government making the important decisions and a redistribution of the wealth to achieve national goals set by the elites in power.

 

Regardless of the economic system the only people with the cash are the ones in charge. The average person barely gets enough to survive on. We could have an economic system devised by slug worms from Planet X and it wouldn't affect the average person one bit. He would still only get enough to survive. The top guys would get their usual 99%.

 

I would say cuba is a good example.

school enrolment: primary education 6-11 years: 95%
school enrolment: secondary education: 91% [FW 2001: 84%]
school enrolment: tertiary education 20-24 years: 22%
adult literacy: 95,7% (male: 96,2%; female: 95,3%) [PG 1996: 75%; FW 2002: 97%]

daily food intake: 2473 calories per capita
population with access to safe water: 93%
people per physician: 169 - 300
people per hospital bed:

birth rate: 12 - 17 per 1000
death rate: 7 per 1000
fertility rate: 2 children per female
maternal mortality: 34 per 100,000
infant mortality (in the first year of life): 9 per 1000
infant mortality (from 1st - 4th year of life): 7 per 1000
life expectancy: 76-77 years (male: 73-74; female: 78 )

the vast majority have education up to high school, the vast majority have clean water, the vast majority eat enough calories to live on.

 

In the American capitalist form of government more people shared more wealth than any other nation in history.

So we know what works and it isn't collectivism.

 

And yet Cubans are driving cars made in 1950.

Everyone may be equal in Cuba but they are all equally poor.

 

That's your big objection to the way they live? They drive old cars?

 

No.

But it's a good place to start.

Communist Cuba is a very poor country and Americans are used to much better.