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Comment by glitchc

15 days ago

Versus what exactly? Communism? Where the rich got richer faster and people got fucked faster?

At the end of the day Capitalism and Communism have nothing to do with authoritarianism and liberalism/democracy. An authoritarian capitalist country is a perfectly valid type of government as there has never existed a 'pure' capitalistic governed country.

They taught you the only two altenatives are 1917 style communism or 2026 style capitalism?

Talk about a crap educational system.

  • What is happening in capitalist countries since 1970s (when they abandoned all pretense) is that the rich get way richer and everybody else is fucked.

    So then what has been happening in non-capitalist countries since the 1970s, so we can compare?

  • Proven outcomes in the real world matter, not hypotheticals in a textbook. Can you provide clear examples of successful communist nations where you would be willing to live and raise children, or is this just pseudo-intellectualism?

    • All communist nations have implemented the same exact narrow subset of the ideology that we know as Marxism-Leninism.

      The reason being that everyone else who tried something more e.g. democratic generally got crushed. So the commies that ended up running countries in the real world were the most ruthless, hyper-violent ones.

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