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It wasn't socialists who invaded western Europe twice in the 20th Century; it was western capitalists looking to expand their empires:Who’s Afraid of Socialism? | Open Media Boston
"Capitalism’s incompatibility with majority interests has been reaffirmed by the current economic crisis.
"Earlier, the most severe effects of capitalism had been offset, within the US, by the progressive reforms of the 1930s.
"But capital’s political power was less restrained in this country than it was in the other rich countries.
"Flush with military might and bolstered by a mass right-wing culture of arrogant self-righteousness, US capital launched a withering counterattack against the New Deal legacy, culminating in an almost three-decade orgy of anti-welfare legislation, imperialist aggression, privatization, and deregulation."
Unrestrained profit maximization results in concentrating an enormous amount of surplus capital which can find few safe investments.
"Free market" capitalists turn to highly speculative scams which generate financial bubbles as the real economy continues to be hollowed out and the working class is driven deeper into debt.
Socialism would turn to government for an alternative, but US government is Goldman Sachs regardless of which major party is in control.
Who is afraid of socialism? Anyone who has studied the history of socialism.....and the mass murder and destruction it has created around the world starting in 1917 when socialism began gaining control of various countries around the world.....the 200 million innocent men, women and children slaughtered under socialist regimes should show anyone with a brain to be afraid of socialism. The western countries who are playing with socialism now, who have institutions that have slowed the advance of complete dominance of socialist control of their countries are just taking the slow walk to the horrors that other countries, without those safeguards, have experienced....
"Estimated to be 10 million military dead, 7 million civilian deaths, 21 million wounded, and 7.7 million missing or imprisoned" (WWI)
"Over 60 million people died in World War II. Estimated deaths range from 50-80 million. 38 to 55 million civilians were killed, including 13 to 20 million from war-related disease and famine." (WWII)
World War I vs World War II - Difference and Comparison | Diffen
Capitalism has killed hundreds of millions over the past five centuries with no end in sight.
Moron....the Germans were socialists....the Russians were socialists, and they didn't just make dead people from war....they murdered 12 million in Europe, and 25 million or more in Russia....that doesn't include the over 70 million murdered by the Chinese socialists....