The Reality of #Socialism: #Poland | Mini-Documentary

The Wall St. Journal’s Mary O’Grady, along with authors of a new book on the economic history of Poland, explore the experience of Polish people under socialist rule, and what happened after the collapse of the #SovietUnion. This video is part of a new multimedia project, The Realities of Socialism, by the Fraser Institute in Canada, the Institute of Economic Affairs in the UK, the Institute of Public Affairs in Australia and the Fund for American Studies in the U.S.

[dakarimane]

"The Fraser Institute is public policy think-tank."

[dersgfreak]

Only half of people in western countries are old enough. Realllly? We got quite low birth and death rates here so i have reasons to doubt that.

[MALEECKSWIFE]

People forget capitalism has failed three times and used socialist polices inorder to save it all three times

[kevinwhite]

It's happening in Canada right now....history needs to be taught in Canada about Socialism

[sparkybob]

Well … Norway is all right. If you define Socialism or the left, as allowing the working class to participate in the wealth of the nation in a meaningful way, that’s OK. State capitalism you could Collett. There are many failed capitalist democracies, late stage capitalism ain’t that pretty and we’re heading for trouble, when 1/3 of the human male population has been forced to take a medication they didn’t want to, but forced into a lower social class for raft of housing and societal inclusion. And look around or cities there’s a problem. The Gini coefficient is more important than whatever ism

[PInkW]

Detroit use to be rich
Singapore use to be poor