Capitalism vs Communism

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We live in an impure capitalistic world, and the communist movements we've seen have not been communist in the marxist sense.

And talking about these as absolutes has no real value- there are other social-economic constructs which we must look to instead of jailing us in two parts based on.. well, nothing.

all the anti-communist propaganda still lives on in the hearts of Americans, but nobody can say for sure if Capitalism or Communism is objectively better since we've never actually seen true capitalism or true communism.

(and socialism is another thing entirely).

Of course its fair to compare the two, by comparing attempts to implement them. In fact, we'll never be able to compare them empirically any other way.

If its harder to get one right, then its riskier to try it at all. There is much to learn from the history of attempts to convert.

As far as I understand nobody has ever tried to do both right.

"capitalism, but with a few fixes" was always the intention.

That's all we'll ever by able to try. Cruel practicality gets in the way every time. That's the point I was trying to make.

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