a reply to:
infolurker
Well you see I am a moderate left winger (UK politics which used to be far left of US politics but none of that woke crap or over representation of
minority's or any of that just good old fashioned British Labour before the Blair years).
So I have to say there is something to that argument it was not done right BUT I also have to say that going full communist OR full capitalist is
always a recipe for disaster.
A little bit of wealth redistribution in the form of Tax spent on public health, library's, education and a well ordered social safety net and old
age care is in my opinion the least a modern nation should do for it's own people especially when the same guy's that say this is evil will run off to
give tax cut's to the billionaires and corporations and change the laws to do so or spend billions on wars we are not even directly involved in while
sending our own poor people to food bank's like the the Tory's are over here in the UK.
I draw my socialism not from Marx but from the bible.
Leave enough grain in the field for the widows and poor to glean, do not put a widow out of her home (Cancel her debt's or her dead husbands debt's)
and there were even city's of sanctuary were even murderers could escape justice in a kind of open prison fashion as if they were caught outside them
then they could still face the consequences.
Then there is Jesus.
Go sell all you own and give it to the poor and the needy.
If you have two coats and your brother has none go and give him the one you are not using (Share the excess don't hoard it).
Build up your treasure in heaven not on earth.
The rich have HAD there reward.
As you treat the least of these (the orphans, poor, downtrodden, the sick and the wretched) so too do you treat ME.
Though they were inspired by Marx the Labour Movement was hardly Marxism, oh they sought to control some industry especially essential industry (But
so too did the Tory's and the Liberals on occasion) but due to the power of the unions back then, the infiltration by Soviet's into them and there
attempt to use our union movements to destabilize our nation it all fell through in the early 1980's as the Labour movement was caught between soviet
infiltrated union's and Thatchers hard right wing anti socialist government.
While we may say with truth that under Communist regimes many people almost always innocent get murdered, more suffer and it is worse than it could
be under a moderate capitalist society such as a Labour government (which is better than a pure capitalist society that will buy and sell you, your
organ's and enslave your children if they are not of the upper class since they need there slaves) there is a fair argument that Capitalism has killed
just as many in just as short a time as Communism has.
Economics driven wars, unnecessary starvation through selling grain and potatoes that should have fed the population during a blight (you can thank
both the Irish Catholic Church - Irelands biggest land owner at the time that wanted to sell the crop to make profit for the church coffers and the
English right wing government of the time that believed in supply and demand and market self balancing with what they called natural wastage of the
excess population - in other words let them starve - for that Irish potato famine).
The land Clearances of Scotland once again driven by Capitalism, the murder and rape of the amazon and it's indigenous tribes and of course the part
played by capitalism in the longest holocaust in history that of the north American native people's in which at least 60 millions were killed not only
by the disease but over the ensuing two century's of murder, rape, invasion, land theft and cultural and ethnic destruction.
Give me a good society, you will be surprised but it while not being BIG government surprisingly has a lot more in common with Communism, it is the
model of Cooperative society like the kibbutz.
Now Communism IS EVIL no if's and no But's but so too is Capitalism.
But either system can and does work well in moderation and a fine balance between free capitalism with HUMAN RIGHTS of course and social rebalancing
through taxation of the corporations and the elite along with appropriate protectionist measures on a society's import's which will of course cause
similar restrictions on it's exports unless they are via trading partners actually work's very well indeed.
The system set up by the Labour Government in the UK for example worked perfectly for the first two generations born under it and continued to work
very well after though it has been constantly attacked by our political and economic right wingers.
Why, well a state provided comprehensive health system like the ORIGINAL model of the NHS leaves no demand for the private services of the private
health corporations except from a tiny ultra elite minority such as provided work for the Harley street doctors.
A State provided comprehensive pension system paid for by a wage based contribution system such as we had in the UK and which has been almost utterly
destroyed by the Tory's left little or no room for private pension company's which are owned by hedge funds today to economically strip mine the
working class of a nation so the Tory's once again facilitated there friends by making it law that company's had to pay into these schemes and the
workers had to as well despite warning's that the whole pyramid scheme they have set up when coupled with the falling birth rate is destined no if's
and no but's to collapse within one to two generations meaning many of these people will then be left in abject beggar level poverty with no state
safety net and no pension.
But the US by contrast has really NEVER cared about it's poor, fine back in the early 1900's when most US citizens were self employed and
corporations paid most of your nations tax AND you actually had a DEMOCRACY (Come on you don't have one now it's all paid for by the elite and you
only get there selection box of crap politicians whom they own body and soul to choose from same as here these days) but not fine now that you have
mega corporations, hardly any self employed any longer compared to how it used to be and there are no jobs to go around during times of economic
crisis.
I suspect part of this different view is down to demographic, we in the UK All used to be ethnic Brit's, once we began to be swarmed by migrants and
once drug's took hold and ungrateful foul mouthed drug addicts abused our welfare system people's attitudes changed, it was not that the welfare
system was bad it was not but they had to blame something for the fact the nation was going downhill by that point and the Tory's were only too quick
to stoke up that with lies and bigotry as always.
But over in the US you never had a shared identity, a nation of migrants many of whom spoke different languages, had different cultures and even
looked different did not make a well integrated care for your neighbour whom is just like you kind of society, fine in neighbourhoods were everyone
looked the same but not otherwise.
But there is no doubt about it full on Communism is utterly evil, anti Christian and vile.
The Communist party in China even indulged in cannibal banquettes during the cultural revolution known as flesh banquettes.
Stalin caused untold suffering and misery.
But so too did Belgium in the Congo?.
edit on 16-7-2022 by LABTECH767 because: (no reason given)