Originally Posted by rat

Hello everyone! Quite an interesting discussion here! Although I beg to differ with one of the comments Ray made.
Quoting Mr Ray: "Communism is a failed doctrine."
In my opinion its not. Any doctrine in its extreme form is bad, be it capitalism or communism.
I would like to draw your attention to the Indian state of West Bengal. The Communist Party of India has been comprehensively winning the free and fair elections in this state for more than 30 years. Had communism been a failed concept, they couldnt have had a string of wins in a democratic election for such a long time. Even the central government in India is solely due to CPI's support.

In my opinion, chinese model is an interesting model of governance and has been quite successful in providing its people both economic growth and social development. Its method might be unacceptable for the world but it has achieved above average success in a short span of 50 years. I also think that their form of governance is evolving with time.