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Communimsm and authoritarianism are opposites. Cannot have authoritarianism with a stateless and classless society.
What's that death toll? Because in the US alone, capitalism kills about 40k per year, due to gatekeeping things like healthcare.
If that's your opinion then no matter what I say you are going to hit me with the "true communism has never been tried"
Oh, it has been tried! For example, the Free People Territory in what is now Ukraine. Killed off by authoritarians pretending to be communists in the the USSR. Also, Neozapatistas in the Chiapas region. Cuba is doing a pretty fair shake at it, as well, and a lot of suffering there happening because of the myriad invasions, assassination attempts, and now economic embargo on them by the US. Rojava is doing a system that borrows a lot from communism (Democratic Confederalism).
So, since we're doing economic death tolls: What is the death toll from just the US capitalist system? Like, 1 million dead during COVID, 40k per year from gatekeeping health care, how many died in Iraq? Afghanistan? How many indigenous people in the US have died from capitalism? I think just the last one puts the holocaust to shame...
Where has capitalism been tried that hasn't resulted in massive death tolls?
Ironically, you completely fell into proving my point.
Somehow, I don't think you'll figure that out... Not today, maybe, but in the future, hopefully.
You mean, by supplying actual examples of when it was tried, and when it worked?
Someday, you'll figure out that capitalism is basically just "Might equals right". Not today, by in the future, maybe. I don't hold out much hope, though.
Here's the discussion you have involved yourself in on...
Here's where communism is mentioned
Good job. Your input has been more noted in the abdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz parts you have paid no attention to, else you'd have never typed a thing. Had you paid any attention, you'd have realised you're doing exactly what is being discussed.
Whatever scratches your itch.
And, please, don't talk to me like some proponent of capitalism when I just said all social ideologies are failures against human nature. Pay some respect and read what people are saying before you insist on yourself.