re: How do people still think in today's world that communism is better than capitalism

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Kids used to wear leather and ride motorcycles, grow long hair and listen to metal or hitchhike around the country and find themselves.

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And those kids were the target of Hoover and the FBI. How free of us...

People that think that way have zero desire to excel at anything in life.

The idea that anyone can make as much money as they want to should be amazing to everyone.

With that being said, a person still wishing that everything was spread out across the people more are literally the most lazy and pathetic people on earth.

“I don’t want to have to work for anything”

Communism preys on emotion and drives the narrative of egalitarianism throughout all facets of life. It distorts the term “equality” in the American sense and turns it into something alien. It combines large swaths of people and puts them into two camps and drives the narrative of “us vs. them.”

In Marx’s time it was the bourgeoisie vs the proletariat.

They’re interested in doing away with history, because it doesn’t paint them in a good light, it actually shows that before the American experiment, communism was actually practiced the world over just without the name. Communism is one of the oldest forms of governance in the world, constitutional republicanism and capitalism are two of the youngest and best forms of governance that men have ever come up with.

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I didn't put this on the poli board because its not a political question. It's common fricking sense that people on both sides of the aisle should agree on. I mean every communist society has resulted in failure with most having some sort of genocide involved with it, whereas the most well known capitalist economy is the greatest nation to have ever existed? How do people argue against this?

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how would you classify our treatment of Native Americans in the 1800's? What would you call Slavery?

Naked, unregulated Capitalism is just as dangerous as Communism. Look at the working conditions in the steel mills and factories of the USA at the turn of the 20th century. That period of time was as close to unregulated captialism as we have ever been.

Both economic systems exploit the common worker for the gain of plutocrats

Also, there's a difference between Socialism and Communism

Socialism is what you can accuse BHO and HRC of promoting. Communism is a whole other ball of wax

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how would you classify our treatment of Native Americans in the 1800's?

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This has nothing to do with capitalism nor communism. You are talking about imperialism.

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Naked, unregulated Capitalism is just as dangerous as Communism.

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Likening capitalism to anarchy is as dumb as likening capitalism to communism.

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Both economic systems exploit the common worker for the gain of plutocrats

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As does socialism.

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Socialism is what you can accuse BHO and HRC of promoting. Communism is a whole other ball of wax

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Stepping stones. BHO and HRC are socialists, because pure communism still isn't politically expedient here, yet.

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how would you classify our treatment of Native Americans in the 1800's

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a very necessary evil. We should give the creatures of the middle East the same treatment. Vanquish the savages. Btw we treated them no differemt under capitalism than the Brits or Spanish treated them for 300 years before that so i don't think that's a mark against capitalism and the way you know that the free market correct itself is how we realized what was happening at the turn of the 20th century and took steps to fix it and were able to without a massive civil war. Another sign that capitalism works.

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In theory, there's a big difference. But in reality Democrats and most Republicans in DC are both in favor of growing government. They just disagree on what to spend more money on.

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I wasn't talking about how the governing body work. I'm speaking more towards the success of communist China since 1949 as compared to Capitalist America in the same year.

There's negligible differences really.

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Less than 70 years ago Hong Kong and South Korea were 3rd world shitholes under communism

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Wat

HRH E II Regina commands your repentence on your recent behaviour and asks that you no longer refer to the Windsors and their former Empire as communist.

This is what happens when you don't keep score and give everyone a trophy in little league.

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How do people still think in today's world that communism is better than capitalism

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I don't think this is true. Some argue that Socialism is better than capitalism, but I never hear that argument for communism.