• Caboose12000@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Communism has failed every time it was tried

    so had flying until planes were invented. whether or not you like communism, this is a bad argument against it

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      What do you think the death toll of flight attempts was before the Wright brothers finally got it right? Certainly not in the millions.

      Whether or not you like communism, “keep trying over and over until it works” is a bad plan when failure has historically cost lives.

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        You’re thinking of dictatorships. If economic systems kill people, wait till you hear about capitalism.

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        Representative democracy sweatin’ hard with this kinda logic.

        Otto Von Bismark firmly believed that republics could never succeed, as they tended to rapidly deteriorate into horrible authoritarian bloodbaths whenever they were tried.

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        Sometime in the future:

        “Okay, our tech has advanced to the point where we can provide plenty to all. Can we abolish capitalism now and just give everyone what they need?”

        “No. That would be communism, and we already tried that 500 years ago…”