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Communism itself is broken as fuck and produces authoritarian governments at best, and totalitarian regimes at worst. All these states are universally impoverished and abusing basic human rights
As opposed to capitalist states, which are wealthy because a small handful of powerful people have extracted the value from everyone else, by abusing human rights.
capaitalism is a strawman invented by Marix. What those states are is liberal (not to be confused with what the media calls liberal today), which means they support freedoms "life, liberty, and property". Capaitalism is not the defining feature it is a derived feature from freedom of property. Liberal states are capitalist in pursuit of their freedom journey. Communism only allows freedoms if they don't conflict with their communism journey.
Despite your cliams, the average person in "capitalism" is much richer than in every other system.
Ah yes the wonderful "freedom of property", which means "the freedom of megacorps to buy up all the property, and overcharge you exorbitant fees to rent because you have no other option than to be homeless".
The capitalism endgame is that megacorps own everything, regular working class people own nothing.
Only the megacorps are actually free.
Blah blah, bad megacorps this, bad megacorps that... You know that cases of large corporations abusing power are exceptions and not indicative to the majority of the economy?
Did we just find the Blackrock CEO secret Lemmy account?
Actually I'm on fedia - which uses MBin
Except for the states that voted out the socialist systems in favor of the capitalism and everyone ther now lives in wealth and prosperity unheard during socialism.
If you had to live in socialist or communist state you'd crawl back to the capitalism within months.
Honestly the actual socialist states, the Scandinavian ones. Tend to be some of the happiest and highest rated on the planet. Consistently even. Generally the authoritarian ones regardless of where they pretend to be economically are often the worst.
Dude, Scandinavian states aren't socialist, they run on a capitalist economies. Who told you that they are? Where's the source of these claims?
Technically we are both correct. But you're still wrong. Not surprising since you cannot actually accurately describe what capitalism, socialism, or communism is.
That article describes basically every EU country. (High taxation, strong employee protections, benefits financed from taxes) You're conflating socialism with welfare state.
Real socialism existed between 1945 and 1989 in central EU and it was awful system, thankfully it's forever gone.
Yep. Exactly what I predicted. You can't actually describe what any of them are. Simply repeating propaganda.
Enlighten me then