The young lad who blames capitalism has obviously never lived under socialism.
I'm all for free markets, but the end-game of capitalism is power cartels backed by military intervention...not free markets. So socialism seems like an interesting alternative to collaborate. That being said, rhetorical systems are used to convince people to adopt an underlying real political order.
Authoritarian/Totalitarian structures always flop. Unfortunately, they also tend to screw millions of lives in between. They also like put the blame on others and gaslight. Like a crazy doomsday cult.
Oh mate... The so-called socialism is a much worse mafia which wouldn't even allow you to call them mafia. The way they disregard human life and any human morals would damage your mental sanity if you ever had to face it. I hope you wouldn't. I wish you all the best and a great life, and hopefully you would never have to face the evil that the socialism is.
Are you talking about Russia? They seem to be on the upswing by all standards. Food is plentiful & inexpensive compared to the inflation that we see in America with rampant homelessness...while billions are sent to buy weapons for foreign countries. You seem quite emotionally agitated.
> Authoritarian/Totalitarian structures always flop. Unfortunately, they also tend to screw millions of lives in between. They also like put the blame on others and gaslight. Like a crazy doomsday cult
Gee...are you talking about Pax Americana Exceptionalism? With NeoCon/NeoLib crying about "human rights" while supplying weapons & escalating conflicts to genocide populations of brown people?
> Oh mate... The so-called socialism is a much worse mafia which wouldn't even allow you to call them mafia. The way they disregard human life and any human morals would damage your mental sanity if you ever had to face it. I hope you wouldn't. I wish you all the best and a great life, and hopefully you would never have to face the evil that the socialism is.
I'm glad that I don't live in a country controlled by Nazis, yes actual Banderite Nazis, brought in by a US backed coup...where young men & women are picked up off the street & sent to the front lines to die. All because the country is dissuaded from making a peace agreement by British & American politicians. Lets get real. This insanity needs to stop...or people will look for alternatives...which is happening as we speak. I hope we can focus on what is constructive again & be on the right side of history. The age of Colonialism is nearing its end.
Is that why Russian TV channels are showing Putin heroically promising to "personally" "solve the issue" of egg prices? [1] Is that why Russian authorities are telling people to grow their own bananas? [2] This strongly resembles the USSR in its final days. Even the old jokes from that era are relevant once again:
A man goes to a doctor and complains: "Doctor, there appears to be an issue either with my vision or my hearing." - "What makes you say that?" - "What I see doesn't match what I hear."
[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-rare-apology-over...
[2] https://www.newsweek.com/putin-banana-ban-shortage-ecuador-u...
No, USSR. Russia is a capitalist country that is quickly becoming a totalitarian fascist country though. Which hugely brings it back to the socialist times.
Oh mate, you need to get out of the far right bubble.
For example, you go on to bemoan authoritarianism. But a corporation is an authoritarian structure, and your critique most certainly applies. The redeeming bits are that they're generally smaller scale than a country, and that there is often a higher level power structure that can moderate its worst incentives. But the same obtuse aloofness/politicking/groupthink do apply, as caricatured by the linked post.