>>Yet another example of what a stunning success communism is....

IMHO it's more fundamental than that. Take Zimbabwe. Their economy is so trashed that they've had to create a new currency to avoid ridiculous billion dollar prices for a loaf of bread.

Easy to attribute Zimbabwe's failure to being socialist. However, I prefer Archbishop Tutu's observation that Prime Minister Mugabe is "a cartoon figure of an archetypal African dictator."

Which is the same old problem. Psychopathic despots come to the fore, amassing fortunes for themselves while mismanaging the economy into the ground.

Do socialist nations have a greater risk of this? Perhaps. In the old days, Western business had a stranglehold on the third world. E.g. the Banana Republics in South America where the US kept psychopathic leaders in line, simply deposing those who weren't capitalist enough to profit the owning companies.

Which leads to the failings of capitalism: cronyism, corruption, greed and excessive exploitation of the plebs leads to revolutions that inevitably swing the pendulum the other way towards socialism, which then is punished by capitalist nations who liked paying pennies for oil and mangoes and resent the evil commies who demand a fair market price. On and on it goes as the excesses of one follow the excesses of the other.

Wherever you find a failing economy: look for the psychopath billionaire despot at the top, or the capitalist excesses that caused a reaction, or the recent war that decimated the economy and caused mass immigration or starvation.