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Easy answers are never right. So capitalism is not >the< problem. For example: Look at the the history of the Soviet Union. Its way more complex
It's inevitable to think capitalism is wrong, but it's easier to fix than Communism or any other system.
I stopped to shout against capitalism simply cause we do not have a better solution yet. Also when capitalism gets wrong, it's mostly because a lack of regulations. A balanced system, like socialdemocracies in Scandinavia are a good example.
Unfortunately it seems we are going towards autocracies everywhere, and that's not capitalism's fault but just human greediness. So in other word, we're the problem, otherwise Socialism would reign all over the world.
communism is supposed to be the democratization of workplaces, on top of democratic politics.
why do you think that capitalism, that repeatedly navigates around the safety rails (for multiple centuries now) is easier to fix?
Another classic example of anti-communists trying to describe communism and just ending up describing capitalism.
Can you name a commie country that has not ended in a dictatorship?
Socialist states end up in a dictatorship of the proletariat, usually in some form of democratic centralism.
Capitalist states end up in a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, otherwise known as bourgeois democracy or oligarchy, with occasional lapses into fascism.
i assume you realise capitalism isn't a defense against dictatorship either? almost every country in the world currently is capitalist, and yet, half of them are a dictatorship, or nearing it (how long til freedom country officially stops being free? there's still some resistance)
and also that the usa did everything in their power to curb the spread of communism? multiple democratically elected somewhat socialist leaders were killed or at least deposed, to place money friendly tyrants instead, the ones that survived, were like castro in cuba, because they were extremely careful, to the point of paranoia, or they were too big to tackle, like the soviets and china. not to mention they participated and participate even more nowadays in (state) capitalism