Yeah, communism may have provided all the astonishing advances in human rights to hundreds of millions of people, saved hundreds of millions of lives from poverty and serfdom, and introduced doubling and tripling of life expectancy where it arrived despite having to contend against the western capitalist empire. But did you know they had prisons during the WW2 times when 25 million soviets were murdered by Nazis?
You didn’t make a point. All you did was provide a list of good things and then point at it. I could make a list of all the good things accomplished by the United States or the UK, but that doesn’t suddenly invalidate the bad.
I could make you a list of bad actions committed by the governments you view favorably. Then you would simply either engage in “whataboutism” and then complain about how another nation has done bad things. Or you would simply ignore those bad actions and provide a list of more good things.
At best it’s an incredibly simplistic and inaccurate way to view the world, at worst it’s intellectually dishonest.
Ok, great, both systems have done good things and bad ones. Now let’s make a balance.
Capitalism by the UK, in India alone, has murdered over a hundred million people. Tell me something on the same order of magnitude done by the USSR (hint: the worst famine in the USSR was 5 million deaths and less than a million people died in Gulags).
Communism has defects in real life implementation, but if it’s empirically better at giving better life outcomes at comparable levels of development, why not go for it?
Yeah, communism may have provided all the astonishing advances in human rights to hundreds of millions of people, saved hundreds of millions of lives from poverty and serfdom, and introduced doubling and tripling of life expectancy where it arrived despite having to contend against the western capitalist empire. But did you know they had prisons during the WW2 times when 25 million soviets were murdered by Nazis?
POV Lemmy user doesn’t learn anything
Close your ears if you want, I made my point and you’re just shouting “lalala I didnt listen”.
You didn’t make a point. All you did was provide a list of good things and then point at it. I could make a list of all the good things accomplished by the United States or the UK, but that doesn’t suddenly invalidate the bad.
I could make you a list of bad actions committed by the governments you view favorably. Then you would simply either engage in “whataboutism” and then complain about how another nation has done bad things. Or you would simply ignore those bad actions and provide a list of more good things.
At best it’s an incredibly simplistic and inaccurate way to view the world, at worst it’s intellectually dishonest.
Ok, great, both systems have done good things and bad ones. Now let’s make a balance.
Capitalism by the UK, in India alone, has murdered over a hundred million people. Tell me something on the same order of magnitude done by the USSR (hint: the worst famine in the USSR was 5 million deaths and less than a million people died in Gulags).
Communism has defects in real life implementation, but if it’s empirically better at giving better life outcomes at comparable levels of development, why not go for it?