"Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone." John Maynard Keynes

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[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

You're forgetting all the terror the West and capitalism has reigned down across the world since 1900.

You're also forgetting China's 100 million dead, worse than Stalin's 40 million.

Both systems are vile.

[–]TheDesperateLurker 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

China is as capitalist as Nazi Germany

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I'm unclear what point you're making.

[–]TheDesperateLurker 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

While modern china does have capitalist elements, it is directed primarily by the party and the president making it less of a free market and instead a command economy, which I'm pretty sure is a similar system to nazi germany. Most would not put the blame of the holocaust at the fate of capitalism, but rather nazism/fascism, so I would sya it we be more accurate to say that the deaths in china were the result of Maoism, rather than capitalism.

[–]Riva 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

and a partridge in a pear tree.

(i totally agree with you. very accurate analysis)