>As for Socialisam vs Capitalism; I believe you (and many others) still did not realize that things have changed last couple of decades.
>There is very few old fashion 'Socialist' countries left (Cuba, NC) and there is certainly no more 'Iron Courtain' & 'communist threat' etc.
>(Despite the fact that some politicians in US keep on trying to reinvent Russia as universal imagginary enemy, nowdays that sounds really backdated if not outright stupid)
>
>Real Socialisam nowdays is happening in Europe!
>Nowdays, most of Europe is actually prety much 'Socialist' if you want. Europe today is land where workers got what Communists
>promissed them some 70 years back. It did happen exactly where Marx predicted it just 6-7 decades later. :)
>
>BTW China is today booming economically rather then collapsing, nagging right back at your theory :)
>
>Cheers :)
>Sergio

It's a shame with all that progress they couldn't stop the slave trade and the black market on babies...

Then there is the illegal problem with everyone flocking to the cities to find work to escape poverty. Sadly China didn't follow the U.S. in putting factories in economically depressed locations where the people needed jobs...