rosebud: if you want to fight fire with fire, you make a long post about the horrors of the Pinochet regime (guess you don't, so I will ). While the death toll from Pinochet isn't in the Soviet/Chinese Communist range, the amount killed and tortured (mosly tortured, boy did they love their torture) was over 40k, so it's not small potatoes. Their economic policies were mostly learned from the Chicago school (Milton Freidman and so on). They also had CIA support. And all this because the people might democratically elect a socialist (this is why democracy had to be thrown out the window for a coup), a bloody torturing murderous dictatorship HAD TO be imposed on them to save them from the possibility of left wing dictatorship! Perfectly logical huh? What are you going to do with a bunch of socialists anyway, clearly just kill and torture them. So they killed, tortured, and implemented Republican economics, ah I see. Quite honestly, and I mean this: all those free market Chilean economists COOPERATED with death and torture, in order to implement some free market ideas - there's no excuse for that ever - they have blood on their hands (not theoretical "bloodlust" blood, but REAL blood). Then you post pictures of some dead people with a caption: "Republicans ideas and killing - they go together" (and see other than being a way overextended generalization saying this about Chilie is not untrue strictly speaking is it?). It is sure to garner many LOLs. Oh that's so hilarious, nothing funnier than dictator references. OMG ROFLOL.

Meanwhile back in the present moment, these are some of the lead market economies in our market world: modern (not Mao's) China which is STILL of course a dictatorship and is known to punish political prisoners, and the U.S. which grows more like 1984 (the surveilence etc.) by the day. Wow freedom in bloom all over indeed. I just knew neoliberalism would take us there (snark).