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Quite the contrary. I have now lived half my life under a communist regime and half under a capitalist one. Let me be abundantly clear: I far prefer the latter.
by jd115 5y ago
Quite the contrary. I have now lived half my life under a communist regime and half under a capitalist one. Let me be abundantly clear: I far prefer the latter. I like where it is, and I like where it's headed. I NEVER want to hear about communism ever again.
Here's the main differences I see:
1. Capitalism is a social construct. It embraces human greed and builds upon it. That's why it works so well.
2. Communism is merely a short-term con scheme (granted, on a rather large scale). It embraces hypocrisy, pretends to shun greed, steals everyone's chips and runs, while making people build some idealistic nice stuff which all collapses to dust and misery the moment the top runs away with the money.
3. There is no 3. People like to wank about with all sorts of flowery ideas about capitalism minus the greed, but that's just communism really.
- scrose 5y agoWhat country do you live in that has a purely capitalist system? I’m curious how that would work out. Even the USA has a lot of socialist policies that primarily benefit the wealthy(ie. Taxpayer funded mortgage deductions)
- jklinger410 5y ago1. Communism is a social construct. It embraces human goodness and builds upon it. That's why it is ethical and good. 2. Capitalism is merely a short-term con scheme (granted, on a rather large scale.) It embraces hypocrisy, encourages greed, steals from the poor and gives to the rich, while making people build some idealistic idea of competitive fairness while burning the entire planet to shreds while the top run away with the resources and quality of life. 3. There is no 3. People like to pretend they understand world history and economics with all these false ideas that lack context of how capitalism is better, when it's just propaganda that hides the resources and military strategy that went behind the current layout of the world economy.
- jd115 5y agoAdorable. You've never actually been on the receiving end of communism, have you? Seems like you just enjoy prescribing it and bashing what actually works (as all communists do). You stole my words verbatim. As all communists do (steal). Because they are completely devoid of any and all creativity and individuality. It's in the word itself. But hey, if we say that owning stuff is bad, we can get away with stealing as much as we want, right? Genius (not). Look, you can keep calling the black colour white, but it doesn't make it so. The only reason anyone can call communism good and continue to justify its horrendous monstrosity DECADES AFTER it flopped and sprayed diarrhoea everywhere, is because of incurable guilt consciousness. Which all communists have, because they know they're worthless. "Communism is a social construct"... my ass. There's never been anything more anti-social or more vile. Trust me, I am well aware of the other horrors of the 20th century. This one tops them all.
- InitialLastName 5y agoAs far as I can tell, nowhere has actually implemented either full-scale capitalism or full-scale communism in the last human lifetime. At its most extreme, there have been some planned-economy socialist states (selling themselves as a "stepping stone to communism") and some thoroughly regulated, state-subsidized free-market systems. I suppose there have also been some failed states that devolved power to a variety of local systems; maybe it's some of those that you have lived under? One of the sensible #3s you might be missing, by the way, could be something along the lines of "free markets with enough regulation to protect the commons and enough social spending to invest in the populace (encouraging future innovation and mobility) and enough of a safety net to limit desperation (to keep the pitchforks out of the ownership class's stomachs)"