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Originally Posted by Charlatan
I am not sure why anyone wouldn't want pure communism *or* pure capitalism... BOTH sound great on paper.
The problem is that both are utopian in their pure forms. Utopian ideals are (so far) impossible to implement.
To my mind, the ideal is, as always, a balance between the two.
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Capitalism works with human nature.
Communism works against it. It doesn't work small scale for long, its a police state large scale, prone to genocide.
The two don't even belong together in a conversation. Evolution is to creationism as capitalism is to communism. They get brought up together because they are polar opposites but that doesn't make communism more valid.
A pure capitalism society would be harsh, but it could function as one.
A pure communism society would simply collapse into a totalitarian police state. I don't know how many examples of this are needed before the trend becomes clear to the armchair communists.
Regulated and unregulated capitalism is something worth looking into and I in general favor regulated, thats where the yin and yang is here.
If you want to argue that state funded schools or even roads are 'communist' I'd counter they are an investment.
If you want to bring up welfare and the like as communist I'd agree with you and ask how well thats all been working out, is the war on poverty 'winnable' and when can we pull out. The programs themselves create far more poverty then they cure.