Castro or Pinochet?

I did want to hear you opinions, I wanted to debate them.

Hopefully destabilising.

Never.

I'm not sure what's right about Hussein, he was left in many ways. In any case what's interesting is that the US was never the major backer of Saddam or bin Laden. Common myth.

 

do you guys just argue for the heck of it?
I mean what a futile thread, all the thread starter is really trying to say is, which is best a left winger or a fascist? I mean whats the point?
Surely the point is theyre both arseholes that farted in your direction

 

Interesting take on Pinochet's Chile.



" The third lesson is that free markets and dictatorial governments are ultimately incompatible because a free economy requires a dispersion of power that will eventually limit the capacity of those who control the government to perpetuate themselves. Yes, Chile's economic reforms under Pinochet were very successful. But they generated a middle class that hated being ruled by soldiers. Ironically, Pinochet's successors proved to be better guarantors of the open economy than the general himself. Since 1973, annual economic growth has been four times bigger, on average, than between 1810 and the day of the military coup... "

LINK

 

Good! If his reforms created a middle class that's prosperous and that hated being ruled by soldiers, then Mission Accomplished! At least something legitimately good came out of the whole ordeal.

 

Fidel Castro attempted to redistribute wealth and ended up redistributing poverty.


Wealth needs to be created.

 

That's why people are optimistic that China's economic liberalisation and rising prosperity will ultimately doom the communist (or one party state) government.