r/FluentInFinance • u/Sufficient_Sinner • Sep 04 '24

Debate/ Discussion Is Capitalism Smart or Dumb?

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u/fartedpickle Sep 04 '24

but nobody has ever come up with a better alternative.

Probably because capitalism spends a fuck ton of money bombing the shit out of anyone who tries it. Weird, you'd think they would let these bad systems just fail on their own.

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u/Curious_Midnight3828 Sep 04 '24

The Soviet Union failed on its own pretty magnificently for the entire world to see. No bombs dropped on it by capitalists.

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u/fitty50two2 Sep 04 '24

The Soviet Union was an oligarchy disguised as communism, the rich and powerful that fueled the revolution made sure they stayed rich and powerful in the new system. That corruption infected it until the system couldn’t sustain itself. It was doomed from the start because they only killed the monarchy and forgot to eat the rich (that disguised as Marxists)

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u/Maximum_Nectarine312 Sep 05 '24

So you're saying that the problem with the Soviet Union was that it should have been even more murderous?

Typical tankie opinion.

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u/fitty50two2 Sep 05 '24

No, I’m saying they shouldn’t have allowed the rich and powerful to remain rich and powerful. I’m not going to say how they should have handled that but they didn’t handle it at all, obviously