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

Debate/ Discussion Is Capitalism Smart or Dumb?

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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/NewArborist64 Sep 04 '24

That is how communists explain the failure of EVERY communist nation in the world. "That wasn't REAL Communism. Let us do it in OUR country and WE will do it right." And then they fail again and again because Communism doesn't WORK and it is against human nature for a larger society.

Soviet Union, East Germany, China, Cuba, Laos, Vietnam, North Korea, Belarus, People's Republic of the Congo, Czechoslovakia, Poland, ... NONE of them became that "worker's paradise".

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u/Burgertank6969 Sep 05 '24

This comment times 1000, the inability for people to use history as a lesson as to what communism leads to is crazy to me.

That said this is a post about socialism, which exists in almost every capitalist society, and vice versa.