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200 million slaughtered? Literal bullshit. That's not even the accepted death toll, I always hear 100 million,
So, you're a holocaust denier then?
although that counts many ridiculous things that also happened under capitalist governments.
Capitalism is an economic system.
The real danger to people is government. Communism advocates for absolute government, ergo the record of atrocities is higher than any other system. Government kills. More government means more deaths. Totalitarian government, as Communists advocate, kills without restraint.
Oh, I've read marx and engels, and I will agree that the proletarians are prone to these influences, engels was wrong on this, but humans are always inherently going to have some of these tendencies, the system in place helps lean them towards certain ones.
Friedrich Engels was the original campus radical,. Raised in opulent wealth, wanting for nothing, sent to the finest schools in the nation (Austria) and having never worked a day in his life, he naturally decided he was qualified to speak on behalf of the oppressed...
Such is leftism.
Capitalism? Greed is prevalent. The pampered radical? Have you seen what they had to experience in their lives?
Mumsy and daddy showering them with gifts and paying for every mistake made? The poor darlings..
Yes, I've known plenty of the entitled little fuckers.Those who have everything handed to them on a silver platter are leftists every time. Nothing makes one a capitalist quite like working for a pay check.
Leftism is predicated upon a failure to recognize value. One who never struggles to get something cannot learn to value anything. Those who strive to attain that which they value appreciate the concept.
I offer a trade, you demand a gift - this is the divide.
Yes, many intellectuals throughout history come from educated families and speak against systems that may benefit them, such as slavery, while using cotton products from the south, doesn't mean that intellectual supported slavery, same with capitalism. Perversion of economics theory? Marx laid down a wonderful way to examine history, examine capitalism, a beautiful critique, I never argued it wasn't marxist, I argued that it wasn't communism, as wrote about by Marx/engels. Mao wasn't a dictatorial thug, in my eyes, I admire Mao, although he made many mistakes. Dictatorship of the proletariat is a great idea, as getting to a communist society is not possible without the working class having political power. Performers of the least uneducated? You may need to reevaluate your understanding of how marxism has changed over time, with extensions by Lenin,mao..
Marx failed to even grasp what he critiqued. He looked at 19th century Prussia, with the remnant trappings of
feudalism, where the well connected were granted fifes in the form of industrial concerns, and declare "capitalism." He failed to grasp that what he observed with the crony corruption of the state controlling the means of production.
A Communist society can no more exist than can the enchanted forest, it is a fantasy sold the the foolish by the evil, so that fools will accept totalitarian dictatorship - which is the ONLY thing you peddle,