If you ever find an economic philosophy that "works", I'm all ears btw. Communism doesn't exactly have a good track record on human suffering and everywhere it's been tried on a mass scale has resulted in mass deaths and atrocities. (I think Marx would turn in his grave if he could've seen what his ideas would lead to.) I think that ship has sailed.
Young people can still daub the Bolshevik symbol on walls if they want, but I think they're on the wrong side of history. It's pure fantasy, even aside from siding with an ideology that has killed countless millions, many times more than even fascism, which is saying something.
But capitalism as we practise it in a lot of Western countries also results in extreme wealth inequality and mass suffering and always ultimately leads to collapse when the poor eventually rise up and have had enough and then you get revolution again. (Lifting millions out of poverty, my arse. It's also thanks to advances in tech and health care that did that, not just capitalism. Same old trickle-down myth that comes with the capitalist religion. Spare me. More billionaires than ever while ordinary people go to food banks, do soul-destroying jobs that destroy their physical and mental health, and struggle to pay the rent even as couples working 2 jobs? In an age when automation does half the work anyway? You call that progress? Give me a break. It's 2025 and this is the best system humans can come up with? Pick one. Come on.)
Why does everything always have to be black and white? It's bullshit.
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