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I'm not a communist, so I have little trouble in denouncing or disliking Stalinist Russia, Maoist China, etc. I also, however, find these sorts of discussions
by apocalypstyx 4y ago
I'm not a communist, so I have little trouble in denouncing or disliking Stalinist Russia, Maoist China, etc.
I also, however, find these sorts of discussions completely disingenuous, however, in that it is conveniently left unmentioned how many millions might or might not be calculated to have died because of capitalism, cultures that have been destroyed, etc.
No one is actually willing to lay everything on the table for examination.
- robertlagrant 4y agoI think it's because capitalism is decentralised as much as possible, and decisions are made - and rewards given - as close to the people taking the risks/doing the work as possible, and so it's hard to make the case that "letting people get on with it" is to blame. Although there will be some emergent negative effects, there will also be vast emergent positive effects. Whereas deaths due to Marxist ideology or socialist top-down policies are actually undeniably due to them, and they seem to happen pretty much everywhere it's tried.