Re: Socialism or Capitalism: What is better?

On Aug 14, 1:18 am, Anton <anton.use...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> James A. Donald kirjoitti:
>
> > Anton
> >> This view is generally regarded as the correct one by
> >> most scholars. Had the relation****p been "extortion
> >> and tribute" as this Donald guy is suggesting GDP and
> >> other figures would not had looked the way they did...
>
> > Your argument presupposes the truth of socialism and the
> > evil of capitalism.
>
> > Finnland was richer than the Soviet Union because
> > capitalists create wealth, socialists move poverty from
> > one person to another.  Not all the wealth produced by
> > Finns was transferred to the Soviet Union.
>
> Nobody is denying capitalism is more efficient in creating wealth.
> However it is in the very same capitalism there would be a noticeable
> deficit in the books if you give away more stuff than you receive.

What you specifically mentioned was GDP, and a high GDP is compatible
with giving away more stuff to the USSR than you receive from the
USSR. You are simply wrong when you write:

> >> Had the relation****p been "extortion
> >> and tribute" as this Donald guy is suggesting GDP [...]
> >>  would not had looked the way [it] did...

GDP in fact very well can look as it did even as a country is paying
tribute, provided the country is sufficiently productive. So that part
of what you're saying is just incorrect. Which leaves us with:

> >> most scholars. Had the relation****p been "extortion
> >> and tribute" as this Donald guy is suggesting [...]
> >> other figures would not had looked the way they did...

So tell us what these "other figures" are which "would not have looked
the way they did".