How Capitalism Survives In So Called Communist Countries.

Ah communism, how it has failed in the world! Now Vietnam has fallen to the lure of capitalism. The very apartment building where we watched the desperate evacuation of Americans and the Vietnamese who worked for them, is now the centre of a neighbourhood of luxury shops selling $1,000 Rimowa suitcases and $2,000 Burberry suits, for those who can afford them, of course. The statue of Ho Chi Min is sandwiched between a luxury hotel and a Brooks Brothers store. The New York Times comments, "If for the Americans, the war here, in which 58,000 Americans and as many as three million Vietnamese died, was on some level about keeping Vietnam safe for capitalism, it turns out they need not have worried." How true! Like the Soviet Union, Cuba, China et al, they never were communist and we still await the first truly socialist/communist society. John Ayers.