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Communism should be treated with much more scorn than it is. It’s an evil and absurd ideology which isn’t actually “beautiful in principle.”

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2w

It’s the biggest scam ever sold but it spreads like a virus and a large portion of the American education system now advocates for it.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2w

is capitalism going particularly well for us

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 2w

Yes. Capitalism has propelled even the lowest levels of capitalist society to have access to standards of living and technological development that not even the kings or emperors of the rest of human history could fathom. Capitalism has lifted more people out of poverty than any other single force in history. Capitalism has granted unprecedented social mobility to every member of society.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 2w

It certainly has flaws, especially when people deify it and set humanity up as a sort of homo-economicous whose only value is as an economic being. But that isn’t an argument for systems of economic organization which have historically proved to do the exact same thing, plus led to the suffering and deaths of hundreds of millions.

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