why some communist nation are economically poor?
925837
because lack of vision
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Many scholars believe that the nuclear build up bankrupted Russia.  Russia needed to make sure that it had as many weapons as the U.S. however, nuclear bombs are expensive.  Especially for a Communist country.  I can't think of one communist country who has a better economy than the USA.
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There are poor people everywhere, regardless of nationality.  In West Germany, 3.7% of the population receives welfare, and in East Germany, 2.7% does.  Compare this to the USA where (as of the last count in 2000) was only 2.4%.  Also, according to the BBC, since the recent economic recession in Japan, poverty has risen considerably.  The unemployment rate in Japan was at 4.3% as of 2005, but the actual poverty rate was unavailable on every site I checked.
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Communists are cool because they make every shmuck as miserable as the next schmuck :).  And by the way, communism has never reached the strides Capitalism has in terms of wealth and common good.
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Move to a Communist country and you'll be all set.  Why should someone who doesn't work get the same benifits of those who work for their money?
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Soviet Union never had any money.  They had paper currency backed by nothing but faith, just like USA (since 1964 when we took the silver out).\n\nThe problem with Soviet Union was more about low productivity than spending.  Like all communist nations, its people were slaves, called "workers".  The elite (like in, say, Mexico) lived very well, the people had nothing.\nSince workers got a bare subsistance, there was no incentive to produce or innovate.\n\nThere was a saying in S.U. "the people pretend to work and the government pretends to pay us".\n\nEveryone (not elite) had to stand in very long lines at the bread "store", shoe "store" etc.  If you needed a new refrigerator, you got on a waiting list.\n\nThe government spent way more than they could afford on the military.  Pres Reagan finally ended the madness by inventing the phantom "star wars" defense system, which kicked in the afterburners on the arms race.  Soviet spent even more on military R&D.  This finally bankrupted them.\n\nPres Reagan collected jokes about Soviet Union as a hobby.  One he told Gorbachev even got a laugh from the dictator.\n\n     --One day a man was home and his wife said "we're out of bread".  So the guy goes to the bread store and stands in line for hours.  When he gets to the front of the line, they ran out of bread.\n\nHe freaks and starts shouting "I DON'T CARE WHAT HAPPENS TO ME ANYMORE! COMMUNISM DOESN'T WORK!".  As he was ranting on and on, the KGB guy in his trenchcoat comes up and says "Comrad, we can't have you talking like this.  Go home."\n\nThe guy goes home and his wife says "they're out of bread again?"  The guy says "it's even worse than that.  They're out of bullets too".
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In Glod village, in Romania (a country from Eastern Europe). People there seem to be quite poor...
208180
no!welcome to the real world,communism is just a theorie..the countries they had communism suffered from hunger and luck of opportunities..their goverments tried to manipulate the people and the ''big heads''were sharing all the wealth while the others had almost nothing.as long as money exists nothing can be shared equal in this world.
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Most societies, despite rhetoric, are socialist to some extent.  Specifically, this means at least some central government control of economic events.  Look at most 1st world countries for your answers (example: USA or UK).  Pure socialism cannot exist, although you get some countries calling themselves "social capitalists." (If that interests you, study Scandinavian countries)\n\nCommunist politics are generally difficult to untangle from economics.  Theoretically, communist countries must be consensus democracies, but this is impossible outside of small, like-minded groups, hence actual communist economies have possibly only existed in small, isolated villages (usually 3rd world), where the pay is the same because everyone lives in the same hut and there is no currency.  Communism is utopian (a pipedream).  Otherwise, the best answer is by consensus, which would be nice, but isn't politics (resultant over conflicts of interest).  My best guess would be that ALL people in such a society would place conflict resolution and equality over profit and selfishness such that any conflict would be resolved out of not only a personal but a societal desire to avoid conflict.  (Note: small isolated villages also have many of the health and sanitary problems that we internet users tend to lack.)\n\nIronically, pure capitalism is the same as communism.  Everyone is looking out for themselves: anarchy.  But it's an untenable position as some people will find that it's in their best interests to form coalitions for protection and self-preservation and - viola! - hello socialism!  If you want to see something approaching pure capitalism, enter a room full of maximum security prisioners for several hours and nothing to do.  This is why some people prefer the delusion of communism over capitalism, despite the fact that neither is realistic because not everyone is altruistic or violently selfish.  How can you tell we are not a pure capitalist country?  Child sex slavery is illegal.\n\nIF, however, you want to go with polical rhetoric definitions, please see your party representatives to give you their nonsense dogmatic responses.  (PS: Subtext is that the "communist party" never really was communist, but like our political parties, knew how to play on a popular lie.)
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Communism will collapse but for different reasons that it did in the former USSR.  The USSR collapsed because of economic reasons, I don't see that being the downfall of the fastest growing country in the world.\n\nUnlike the former USSR it has accepted (at least way more than USSR did) capitalism.  There are now billionaires in China and that could have never happened in the USSR.  People are buying things and demanding things in China.  In the former USSR they got a ticket for a car or bribed an official to get a car or food, tv, radio.  \n\nHealthy competition for products, services, labor are needed to keep people innovating and motivated in their country.   I suspect one more generation will have totally embraced the free market and communism will die out.
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Lazieness is one factor..a major one. Remember it was a slothfull induvidual who wouldnt work by the sweat of his brow who came up with the theory that evolved into communism...the evil empire. Also people who wre not raised to work with their hands but to chase after materialistic gains will not want to take real work but whatever can make easy money. They are spoiled...rotten\n Regards, Ammo
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Nations of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, generally characterized as poor, having economies distorted by their dependence on the export of primary products to the developed countries in return for finished products. These nations also tend to have high rates of illiteracy, disease, and population growth and unstable governments.
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The basic principles of communism conflict with human nature.  Take a quick look at one aspect of communism; that of property rights.  In a communist society, no person or family owns land.  The government owns farmland, and citizens are told to farm it.  They get a set state income for their work. They get the same income whether they do a great job, or merely an acceptable job, so why put forth the effort to do a great job?\nNow look at the situation as it would exist in a free market economy such as a representative republic.  A young person decides they want to farm.  They learn how it's done by working for some other farmer, going to school, or perhaps they are in a family who has a farm and learned while growing up.  They decide to buy some land, they borrow money and buy it and start farming.  They are obligated to repay the loan, so they work very hard and try to make the most efficient and productive farm they can. They continue to study new methods and technologies in order to improve the land.  Meanwhile, they make payments to the bank, who is making a profit by charging them interest.  The interest the bank makes is then loaned out to others, who also invest in some sort of business or housing, or whatever, and the ecconomy grows.  They farm is successful because the people owned the land.  It's in their best interest to make it healthy, productive, and sustainable.  The prospect of owning it outright and making more money inspires them to great things.  This is only one aspect of your question, and I hope it helps.  Please have a look at the sources I've provided for more in depth information into communism, socialism and other forms of government and how time and again a free market is proven the best government.  Thank you for the opportunity to share some thoughts.
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Ha. The "commies" are truly viewed as ev-il and injust, only because of Stalin and the other soviets who mucked up Marx's ideals! \n\nThe ignorance surrounding communism is outrageous.  People will never know that communism was supposed to benefit the whole and that the "Proletariat" was the group that misinterpreted and ruined it.  Also, they don't know that Marx had ideas for an INDUSTRIAL country to adopt his theories not an AGREGARIAN country like China. \n\nIgnorance is the key here. If people under 18 don't go to college, don't read Marx and have parents that grew up in the 50's and 60's the answer is YES. There is an anticommie sentiment prevelant here.
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The economy and middle class are indeed growing at a fast pace in China, but the majority of Chinese still live the way they did 30 or 40 years ago.  I think the chinese government is trying to slowly convert the country into a capitalist - or at least a french-style socialist - society without making the mistakes Gorbachev made in USSR 15-20 years ago.  Time will tell if they succeed, though there are rumors of increasing discontent in the rural areas.  The same thing happened in the US in 1920s - right before the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression.  Hopefully China will not suffer the same fate.
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They pay low wages 'cause they hate for anyone but themselves to have a good standard of living.  THey want to create a banana republic in the US where a tiny minority of rich control the multitudes of poor with union-busting, religious control & a culture that says the poor deserve low pay 'cause they're labelled as "lazy" by their rich overlords.
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Communism had no middle class and capitalists because all are treated equal.  Only the leaders are enjoying and most of the people are simply workers and laborers receiving only basic items for a living.