> We've also witnessed capitalist systems fail drastically, and other systems succeed impressively.
Please, show me one country not rooted in capitalism which has "succeeded impressively" in recent decades.
Please, show me one country not rooted in capitalism which has "succeeded impressively" in recent decades.
If we lift the restrictions of "a few decades", you'd find that the USSR transformed a feudalist, barely-electrified nation into America's greatest opponent on the world stage, with a stake in the space race, in less than half a century.
And that's just the economic side of things.
You may not want to stop progressing, but ask Americans without healthcare coverage whether they would prefer government money going to research or to providing for their needs, and many of them will disagree with you.
And USSR never managed to turn to US greatest opponent, despite killing millions trying.
>USSR never managed to turn to US greatest opponent
This is a very interesting take on world history. What do you consider the USSR's role in the world to be during the Cold War? What makes you reject most modern historical thought?
And USSR's role was the same as North Korea today - poor, unpredictable totalitarian country with nukes.
>And USSR's role was the same as North Korea today The US is not currently producing a huge amount of propaganda in a culture war against North Korea. There is no scare of North-Korean-sympathisers infiltrating American society, or its government. The West is not fighting any proxy wars with the Koreans, nor are they engaging in international competitions equivalent to the space race. There is no "North Korean sphere" - North Korea has no cultural or political influence over a broad group of nations around the world. North Korea does not constitute some kind of "fourth world".
There is no comparison.