Originally Posted By: nassim

I can see where he is going with that one. I'd rather have lived in Italy than East Germany, Poland, Yugoslavia, Romania, the USSR, or anywhere else controlled by communists during the Cold War. Regardless of how corrupt the country is/was, it still has/had more to offer than the best that communists can offer.


I don't think anyone here was saying how great Communist Russia or the Eastern Block was back-in-the-day. Italy actually had one of the biggest and most legitimate Communist parties in Europe. Most Western democracies are based on ideas of social democracy rather than pure socialism or capitalism, which doesn't really fit into the either/or arguments so popular with many Libertarians.