My reading of the original quote was that we are already fighting the beast, so why take a dangerous detour with provably-failed methods to do so? So it’s not that capitalism is exactly better, but why trade a wrong for a different kind of wrong?
Failed is an interesting word to use when describing liberation of billions of people from the yoke of capitalism and colonialism. Only somebody who’ve never had to personally experience capitalist exploitation would make the sort of false equivalence you’re making between communist and capitalist states.
Millions of people “liberated” so they can work in the people’s factories and labor camps, spend time in the people’s prisons for political activities, be executed for being gay or muslim, and starve while those in power feast in abundance. Please tell me more about how that’s different from capitalism?!
(i’ll ignore the ad-hominem which really doesn’t serve your point :))
Are you saying the queer/muslim massacres of Stalin are just a dream? That Trotsky’s political police was in fact throwing parties with the people they disappeared? Or that the labor camps were just a day spa for exhausted workers? I implore you to learn a modicum of history.
My reading of the original quote was that we are already fighting the beast, so why take a dangerous detour with provably-failed methods to do so? So it’s not that capitalism is exactly better, but why trade a wrong for a different kind of wrong?
Failed is an interesting word to use when describing liberation of billions of people from the yoke of capitalism and colonialism. Only somebody who’ve never had to personally experience capitalist exploitation would make the sort of false equivalence you’re making between communist and capitalist states.
Millions of people “liberated” so they can work in the people’s factories and labor camps, spend time in the people’s prisons for political activities, be executed for being gay or muslim, and starve while those in power feast in abundance. Please tell me more about how that’s different from capitalism?!
(i’ll ignore the ad-hominem which really doesn’t serve your point :))
I implore you to learn a modicum of history.
Are you saying the queer/muslim massacres of Stalin are just a dream? That Trotsky’s political police was in fact throwing parties with the people they disappeared? Or that the labor camps were just a day spa for exhausted workers? I implore you to learn a modicum of history.