- What is your view of communist states either failing and resorting to capitalism (e.g. Russia) or evolving to include aspects of capitalism, whether it is dealing with capitalist states or introducing capitalist measures to their economies (e.g. China and Cuba)?
- How can communism and capitalism be reconciled?
- Is a communist state who changes in this way no longer "communism proper"? Are they now technically socialist?
- How do you compare communist and socialist economic systems?
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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