Iraq Not America's to Sell

[Darth Wong]

It would appear that Axis Kast believes that "collective or government ownership" means "dictatorial one-man ownership". Perhaps you should go back to that dictionary and look up "collective", mmmkay?

“An idiot who thinks he can run his economy personally […], asserting direct control over industries appropriated by the state,” is generally understood to be operating with and on the authority of a collective government (over which he is incidentally the primary authority).

Yet again, you demonstrate that you do not understand the definition of "collective". A one-man dictatorship is not "collective government"; the people do not participate in it. A collective is a shared entity.

[Axis Kast]

And, yet again, you've evaded the question. If not Socialist, what is was the Iraqi economy?

Yet again, you demonstrate that you do not understand the definition of "collective". A one-man dictatorship is not "collective government"; the people do not participate in it. A collective is a shared entity.

Saddam Hussein did not spend every waking hour of every day managing Iraq's industrial and manufacturing infrastructure. While he issued orders as the chief executive of his nation, collective management - i.e. control via state beauraucracy - was the norm.

The Soviet Union was a Communist nation, but you cannot tell me that the people actually shared control of the infrastructure. What you're doing is pulling away into semantics and trying to justify yourself on other meanings of the word.

You're just spoiling for a fight, Wong, aren't you?