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Originally Posted by Frieza_Prexus  You advocate communism versus capitalism. I believe you're arguing a false position. Literally, apples versus oranges. A better analogy would be freedom versus slavery.
Under a capitalist society, you are free to enter into a communistic agreement with any willing participants. Under a communist system, I am jailed, or worse, for pursuing my own economic goals.
The difference between you and me is that I want everyone free to forge their own destiny.
You want me to be a slave to yours. And I dare assume you would justify murder and imprisonment in order to deny me my freedom of choice to live and trade as I want. |
That was just a brilliant post, nicely put. I have very little knowledge of economics and what you posted was very approachable.
But the only thing holding me back from believing you (sadly) is that you have an education about Communism, that is based on fantasy. Didn’t America go through a period where the public was goaded like sheep into fearing the big bad Communist. And it seems that this still perpetuates to this day. Even to intelligent, well educated and thoughtful individuals like yourself.
There never has been a Communist state, there have been dictatorships parading as Communist states that’s all. Soviet Russia and China have never been Communist states, and they are the only ones I can think of doing the whole jailing/slavery thing you stated.
The original principles/ideals that Karl Marx put forth, I think everyone can agree are unworkable due to a variety of reasons. You don’t need arguments based on fantasy to defeat the ideal of (original) Communism, just logic.
