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Capitalism means freedom of choice
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The number regretting its fall most goes up when only polling those old enough to have lived through it. "Rosy Retrospection" alone doesn't cut it, it's also the tremendous decline in social safety nets and quality of life metrics like life expectancy.
There's actually quite a lot preventing them from forming it again, and it's the same thing preventing Russia from forming it until finally going through Revolution: the Capitalist state.
Seriously, consider cracking open a book once.
Yeah, it goes up for those, but it still barely cracks half and you have examples like Estonia, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan where single digit people support it.
The communist party is not banned in most Eastern European countries (what a novel idea, not banning parties and not throwing political opponents in jail!) and they get single digit vote share. This evil capitalist state, preventing communism by checks notes giving people freedom, and prosperity...
Yep, a tiny minority of countries opposed it. Moreover, the idea that democracy is possible within Capitalism, itself an anti-democratic system surrounding the dictatorial command of Capital in the hands of those wealthy enough to afford it, is silly. Prosperity for the few on the backs of the many describes Capitalism aptly.
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