"Getting rid of capitalist 'exploiters' in Communist countries did not raise the living standards of workers, even to levels common in many capitalist countries, where workers were presumably still being exploited, as Marxists conceived the term." - Thomas Sowell

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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

One cannot achieve freedom by trading one master for another. If the people are to ever truly achieve freedom, they must themselves seize power, overthrowing the corrupted systems of Capitalism and Socialism, which both serve an ultra-rich elite, and establish a third-positionist Democracy, in which all people, and classes of people, shall have an equal and proportionate say in the running of the country. Capitalism and Socialism are two sides of the same coin, and the flipping of that coin does not change the fact that it is a coin.

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

You're using the wrong words. You mean capitalism and communism. Socialism is inherently capitalist and anti-communist.

What you are using is the Orwellian Newspeak definition of the term, taught and reinforced through COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA, so basically you are repeating that same propaganda while saying you are anti-communist, and reinforcing the commies' hold on your thought processes.

It's bad.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Socialism is just diet Communism.

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

So you must be a communist, because that idea started with them. You are literally repeating COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA by saying that.

Did you know that the first socialists were libertarians and anarchists? Obviously not! Ignorance is NOT a virtue!

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'm a syncretist, but okay. Since you quite obviously violated the Pyramid of Debate, I shall cease further replies.

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

How did I violate it? I just wrote that you are using communist propaganda as "truth", and that therefore you must be a communist. That is called inference, and it is part of logica and reasoning, both fairly high on the pyramid of debate. Should I edit and put a question mark instead of a period? Will that appease your hurties?