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It can be argued those systems 'delivered' in spite of their cruel, indifferent, and centralized nature. Not solely because of them.

• dumbledoren 2y ago
  > cruel If the US killing people when they cant pay for healthcare or pushing the homeless outside city centers in the winter to have them freeze to death does not make capitalism 'cruel', then those systems werent cruel either. Doublespeak poisons the mind.
  • paulryanrogers 2y ago
    I'm not trying to defend capitalism here, so not sure where you think you see doublespeak
    • dumbledoren 2y ago
      The 'cruel' adjective. If capitalism is not cruel, then such a criticism cannot be made against socialism, communism etc. And if one would bring up 'political persecution', capitalism persecutes the politically non-compliant harder than any eastern bloc country - and did so both in the 1950s and still does it today.