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Not 'rarely,' never. Every time "pure" communism has been tried, it has ended is misery, death, disease, and horror.
by jayess 9y ago
Not 'rarely,' never. Every time "pure" communism has been tried, it has ended is misery, death, disease, and horror.
- TaylorAlexander 9y agoWhat do you think led to misery, death, disease, and horror? I do feel that Capitalist nations also continue to be responsible to misery, death, disease and horror (typically in far off places).
- perl4ever 9y agoI'm doubtful that "Capitalist nations" exist in the sense of nations founded on an ideology called Capitalism. My impression is that "Capitalism" was originally a pejorative term created by opponents to the established order and came over time to be adopted as a reaction by some of those being criticized to mean what they wanted it to mean. So we have an ongoing struggle over the meaning of the word, and reasoning based on a pretense of shared understanding of the meaning is not productive. It's not as though someone wrote a Capitalist manifesto that initiated the practice of Capitalism.
- andrewjl 9y agoYou're conflating capitalism with colonialism / imperialism.
- Can_Not 9y agoNot a single communist thinks "pure" communism has ever been tried, do you think you're being intellectually dishonest and strawmaning "whatever Mao did" as communism instead of using the vast philosophical works of leftists to define it?