An interesting case study on socialism and the effects it has had in Brazil. A lot of the problems that the speaker mentions with Brazil have to do with corruption, and defenders of socialism might say that it was the corruption of the people\u00a0 implementing the system that was the problem rather than inherent problems of socialism itself. However,\u00a0central to the concept of socialism is centralized government control, and\u00a0this in itself provides opportunities\u00a0for corruption to occur.<\/p>\n
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