As I stated during our discussion today, I don't believe that one culture can be considered more "successful" than the other. You can say that a certain culture produces happier people, richer people, smarter people, kinder people, whatever. But success itself isn't something you can measure. It is another idea created by people that doesn't actually exist. What is success, really? Having a good job and a big house? If this is so, than maybe we can measure a culture's success on average house size. But really, success is just a human interpretation of facts. It cannot be measured unless it is given a concrete definition that everyone can agree upon.
The communists and capitalists were not wrong to judge each other based on cultural knowledge. You can judge someone on anything, it just may not be a very accurate judgement. Because they were both so biased against each other, both sides probably had a horribly inaccurate image of the other in their minds. However, this doesn't make their judgement morally wrong. The most effective and accurate judging would most likely come from hard, concrete facts. However, this doesn't mean that we are oblidged to only judge people based on facts about them we have gleaned. It just depends on how truthful and unbiased you want your judgement to be.
Sorry about the evasive answers. I'm feeling philosophical and argumentative today.
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