3 ms·
My point is that both communism and capitalism have problems. Both systems have shown themselves to be corruptible. The 'ideal form' of either system can never
by jondubois 6y ago
My point is that both communism and capitalism have problems. Both systems have shown themselves to be corruptible.
The 'ideal form' of either system can never be achieved because of corruption.
- matthewfelgate 6y agoRubbish.
- Dahoon 6y agoLook at the most pure capitalist systems in the world and you will see more corruption and 1%'ers than in the way less "pure". Like Scandinavia vs the US. It isn't rubbish at all.
- read_if_gay_ 6y agoTautology, if you ask me - it's a meaningless statement that misses the point because corruptible is not binary, communism has a much worse track record re corruption than most capitalist countries. Sure, just like anything ever involving human elements, both are corruptible, but what's important is how bad does it get?
- kubanczyk 6y agoPeople voted with their feet, statistically speaking, and a theory that doesn't explain it isn't usable. If there is a lesson here for followers of Marx, the ability to make jeans or coca-cola (i.e. whatever fad the lowest-denominator consumers want this month) is a very important characteristic of a system.
- ihm 6y agoThis leaves out the very violent wars (sometimes bordering on something like genocide [0]) that have been waged by the capitalist world against communism. [0]: E.g., a CIA backed government killed ~1 million people with connections to the communist party in Indonesia. https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/05/18/how-jakarta-became-the-codeword-for-us-backed-mass-killing/ https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/05/18/how-jakarta-became-...