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The problem with communism is the same problem with unregulated capitalism: when you give extraordinary power to a small minority, everyone else suffers. There
by Retra 10y ago
The problem with communism is the same problem with unregulated capitalism: when you give extraordinary power to a small minority, everyone else suffers.
There's also the problem that violent revolutions are extremely risky, and are unlikely to result in anything but a dictatorship, exacerbating the previous point.
Most failed communist communist governments have these problems, as do most failed capitalist governments. Until you have a peaceful transition into a communist system properly hardened against corruption, you'll have little real reason to believe it is any more flawed than capitalist economies.
- Clubber 10y agoI don't think you can reasonably compare the suffering of any capitalist society with the suffering of Soviet Russia, especially in the 1930s.
- RugnirViking 10y agoYou can try https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_India_Company#Conflicts_and_wars_involving_the_VOC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_India_Company#Confl...