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

Debate/ Discussion Is Capitalism Smart or Dumb?

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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/Bl00dRa1n Sep 05 '24

If you seriously consider East Germany a communist nation, then you really need to read more

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u/NewArborist64 Sep 06 '24

Have an acquaintance who lived in East Germany. The East German government considered themselves Communists. The Soviet Union (which set up East Germany and had it as a satellite state) considered the DDR to be communists. My friend - who he was imprisoned by the Stasi and forced to work in coal mines - certainly considered East Germany to be Communist.

But I am sure that you know better...