NYCPHP Meetup

[David Krings]

Edward Potter wrote:
> Like that's why the USA is kinda of falling off the map in the Asia 
> explosion?  So did capitalizim kill us in the end? Great, even Crammer 
> is quoting Marx now.  Yipes!  :-)

Well, way back in the late 80s I visited friends in East Germany. Two things 
really struck me odd: getting a table assigned in an ordinary restaurant and 
the "Employee of the Month" displays with picture in grocery stores.
Fast forward 10 years, my first visit to the US: I get a table assigned at 
Friendly's and the "Employee of the Month" displays in the stores were 
identical in make and design like those in communist East Germany. Seems as if 
there isn't much difference after all.
And Karl Marx intended his ideas to be implemented in highly industrialized 
countries, like England. Not in farm-based economies like Russia. I am sure 
he'd still rotate in his grave if he could. But communism isn't bad, only the 
first 500 years are tough.

David