>Every attempt to enact communism ends in the death of million of innocent workers >communism is a theoretical system of social science that can not and has not been proven to be superior to existing systems >people still want to try to realize communism by conscious action to this very day
explain this to me...
Michael Cruz
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Juan Fisher
/pol/ will not give me an answer worth half a goddamn. This is humanities related you prick.
Bentley James
It's extremely appealing in the same way that Christianity (at least of the Platonic sort) is appealing: it says everyone is equal and it offers utopia. Nietzsche commented on this.
Michael Wood
If you want to manipulate people you don't tell them "do what I say", you tell them "I want to help you! join our group and we'll defeat the bad guys and create a utopia, who's with me!"
This explains most of communism. The group represents "the people" and everything right in the world while acting in your own interest is bad evil wrong, notably capitalism since every state likes to tax people. It is easy to call individual self-interest callous or unkind, few question whether the guy standing on the podium preaching about how virtuous and lofty they are might be callous also.
When people think of assholes they think of their old roomie Chad who never did the washing up, bullied them for studying all the time and woke them up in the middle of the night while he banged some fat chick. This is most people's experience of the "evil" in the world, they don't know what true evil is, they just know their tax dollars go somewhere, it costs so much, the army has to go do something "over there" and that's just how it is.
Nathaniel Turner
The "existing systems" kill millions of people every year.
Some people think that perhaps we can build something better.
Camden Evans
>implying this would be any different under Communism
Jordan Nguyen
How many people died of those things before capitalism?
Jacob Campbell
>Every attempt to enact communism ends in the death of million of innocent workers
What you're actually saying is
>Russians are incompetent
Blake Jones
>Le there exists not only clean water and food for everyone but also the ability to consistently ferry it across the world meme
Anthony Richardson
>Russians >Chinese >Cambodians >Koreans >Ethiopians >Germans >Vietnamese Need I go on?
Benjamin Nelson
Common misconception. All (except Pol pot who was a CIA stooge) killed people who deserved it and maybe went a bit far (maos killing of school teachers). How about the fact that the world's second biggest economy for 70 years has been socialist
Michael Reyes
All of those were offshoots of the Third International, founded by Russians and based in Russia.
And if you call communism in Russia a "failure", then what do you call Russian attempts at literally every other system? Communism brought Russia from a medieval tier pre-industrial shithole to being a global superpower and putting the first man in space.
Jonathan Martinez
how many lives do vaccines save? have many lives has eradication of smallpox and polio saved?
Henry Brown
>Pol pot who was a CIA stooge
Dominic Cruz
>Install tyrannical regimes in Russia, Cambodia, China, North Korea, Eastern Europe, and Ethiopia >Each regime kills hundreds of thousands, if not millions of their own citizens directly by military force >Regimes like the Khmer Rouge kill up to a quarter of the population >Untold millions more are sent to suffer in specially made labor camps for disagreeing with Communist dogma >Communist leaders deliberately engineer famines to cull their enemies, whether ideological or ethnic >Mao himself claimed that "one-tenth of the peasants would have to be destroyed" (~50 million people at the time) to facilitate Communist reforms >None of this happens in capitalist countries
>B-but muh preventable deaths!!!
Are Communists the most disgusting, morally bankrupt people in existence?
Samuel Young
>Let's compare all of the "preventable" deaths in the world today with all of the government-enforced deaths in a couple of nations without accounting for population size! >Whoa, the capitalist third-world shitholes (that would still be shitholes under communism) had more deaths! Wage-slaves BTFO!
Nolan Edwards
really made me think
Austin Rogers
>Japan >victim of communism u wot
Matthew Foster
>people not being able to afford things is the same as intentionally preventing them from having them
give me all your money rn
Blake Rivera
IT NEVER COUNTS!
Lincoln Johnson
China is """"""""""""""""socialist """""""""""""""" and also has a fuck ton of people.
The USSR was also not real communism and also has natural resources out the ass, as well as receiving a huge industrial boost from the US during WW2.
Robert White
>they deserved to die
Jayden Thomas
>people dying from famine under communism is the fault of communism >people dying from famine under capitalism is the fault of literally anything but capitalism
Joshua Martinez
>intentional famine for the express purpose of killing people is the same as accidental famine due to a culmination of many factors, most of which are not anthropogenic
you are a nigger
Luke Barnes
Go to leftypol then
Chase Brooks
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Levi Watson
>Fascist and Nazi terror is capitalism >Iran-Iraq war was because of capitalism >Potato famine was because of capitalism >Japanese and Israeli imperialism is caused by capitalism Oh leftypol, never change
Liam Rogers
>everything that isn't communism is capitalism neat
also
>ignoring the fact that communists managed to kill more of their own people than anyone else in history given the time span. double neat
Cooper Johnson
Okay, so Stalin deliberately starving the Ukraine is an inherently communist crime, but the British deliberately starving Ireland or India isn't an inherently capitalist crime?
Jack Watson
>Potato famine was because of capitalism
That's the only thing that image got right, though.
The Irish starved because belief in the power of the market kept them exporting food while they couldn't afford it themselves.
Jaxson Wood
Are you aware of the fact the British government continued to export and sell food from Ireland while millions starved?
Lucas Long
>Smallpox is capitalism -100 million >Atlantic slave trade killed 15 million despite only involving 12 million slaves -10 million >Indian famines greatly exaggerated -22 million >Nazis were capitalists -25 million >Algerian war of independence is capitalism's fault despite being started by socialists -1 million >Vietnamese killed by US higher than total Vietnam war dead by both sides -1.5 million >US bombing killed twice as many people as died in the civil wars -500,000 >Both Angolan and Mozambiquan civil war deaths exaggerated by half a million, murders by communists not mentioned -550,000 -600,000 >UN sanctions on Iraq death toll exaggerated -600,000 >Civil war in Afghanistan death toll exaggerated, blamed on capitalism rather than Communist invasion -400,000 >Destruction of Communist Yugoslavia blamed on capitalism instead of just Nato bombings -190,000 >Congolese civil war death toll exaggerated -2 million >East Timor massacre exaggerated -97,200
Total killed: 222,655,929 -164,437,200 misattributed or made-up deaths =58,218,729 killed by capitalism in over 500 years.
Remember not to fall for commie lies
Austin James
>t. the classcuck
Stay mad wageslave, communism is inevitable
Tyler Turner
I thought that Stalin wasn't real communism. If that's true then why are the other two real capitalism?
Joshua Scott
>kill millions They don't kill anyone, faggot. Taking food away forcefully (as in communism) is killing someone. Being an useless parasite that can't provide for himself is completely your fault. Why should anyone be responsible for providing you with clean water, food and medicine? How is anyone responsible for your death you inflicted upon yourself by not taking care for yourself?
Ian Cooper
>British deliberately starving Ireland >The potato blight was deliberate
This is your brain on communism
Liam Thomas
To be fair the Irish famine & the Indian famine(s) were more a case of "we really don't care" rather than going in and just taking all the food from the people there like the USSR did.
Noah Martin
>look at my meme utopia that has never been achieved in history, despite 2 dozen countries trying and failing >but it will surely work this time guys, I'm telling ya' just one more time
Brayden Foster
All serious attempts at Communism so far have been based on the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist model, which represents only a fairly small subset of Communist ideology. It indicates that the MLM model is seriously flawed, or at least has implementation issues that have yet to be effectively addressed, though it's not rational to assume that it means Communism as a whole is non-viable. Obviously, however, "let's hope it works this time" is not a good way for Communists to approach future attempts at building a Communist society; rather, they need to put serious effort into learning from the failures of past Communist revolutions and finding a different approach.
They did specify that they were talking about easily preventable deaths that are nonetheless NOT prevented in capitalist societies. The fact that capitalism is an improvement over earlier systems (something which even Marx admitted) does not mean capitalism should be above criticism. Capitalism was a good thing when it first happened, but to focus only on the past and refuse to look into addressing the problems that still remain is just plain silly.
>>people not being able to afford things is the same as intentionally preventing them from having them Yeah because people who are starving to death really care about the difference.
Henry Hernandez
It doesn't matter what the fuck they care about you dumb motherfucker. If you trip and fall on a sharp rock and bleed to death it's in no way the same as me coming up to you with a fucking knife and stabbing you, even though you bleed out all the same!
Luke Turner
>Taking food away forcefully (as in communism) is killing someone Not if you leave them enough to live on.
>Being an useless parasite that can't provide for himself is completely your fault. >How is anyone responsible for your death you inflicted upon yourself by not taking care for yourself? Because of course all disabled people are that way out of choice.
>Why should anyone be responsible for providing you with clean water, food and medicine? Because otherwise you are choosing to profit from the suffering of others. Under most worldviews and philosophies, that is considered evil.
Noah Hall
Except you had no part in me tripping over that rock. That's the difference. But when you knowingly make a decision that causes others to die, it doesn't matter if you do it out of malice or carelessness.
Jordan Anderson
Other people are not responsible for your life. You need to stop trying to make everything that happens anthropogenic.
Austin Walker
>enough to live As in 1932 :^)
>all disabled people >only disabled people die from no food, shit water and disease
>choosing to profit from You don't sell them stuff, they don't buy it. How is that profiting? By no capitalistic model is that considered profit.
Grayson Robinson
Communism will probably only work in a post scarcity world or anything
Aaron Powell
That's nonsense though. People don't live in a vacuum. If other's actions cause you to suffer, then they ARE responsible for your suffering. You seem to subscribe to the fallacious notion that people can just "opt out" of being affected by the world around them.
Alexander Hall
at least redo the helmet, maker of the meme (its repurposed from a wehraboo)
Gavin Nelson
>>all disabled people >>only disabled people die from no food, shit water and disease So you actually think a significant number of people decide it's better to die than to work and take care of themselves? For people that are actually known to have suicidal tendencies that might make sense, but otherwise it's unrealistic.
>You don't sell them stuff, they don't buy it. How is that profiting? By no capitalistic model is that considered profit. Because there are limited resources, meaning that if preventable deaths WERE prevented, there would be fewer luxuries.
Jackson Nelson
>WERE prevented I don't see how that's someone else's responsibility.
The bottom line is that your life is your responsibility. If you die from the inherent inability to take care for yourself, the fault is only yours.
Jayden Myers
No im being reasonable given the fact that everything you do has a profound and unknowable effect on everyone around you and morality and ethics are necessarily difficult things if you aren't a child or autistic. You can't reasonably hold people responsible for your own life when they don't intend to hurt you. Hell when it comes to your example they don't even think of you. Because you aren't they're responsibility. And it's entirely impossible for everyone to be everyone else's responsibility. Spend some time in the real world and grow up.
Brody Butler
>limited resources >wealth = physical resources >wealth can't possibly be created ever Why bother discussing stuff you have no idea about? If the useless person creates utility, the overall wealth increases and an capitalist would be foolish to not do business with him (i.e. sell him water, medicine, food).
Kayden Phillips
>The bottom line is that your life is your responsibility. If you die from the inherent inability to take care for yourself, the fault is only yours. And I'm saying that's immoral. It's basically saying that severely disabled people DESERVE to die.
So why do you think people starve and die from lack of healthcare? Why do you think capitalists are so frequently foolish?
Justin Cooper
>Why do you think capitalists are so frequently foolish? Humams are foolish you dumb motherfucker. Capitalism spreads responsibility and decisions around rather than concentrating them in the hands of a planning authority. You know what's good for you better than some suit somewhere else.
William Walker
>So why do you think people starve and die from lack of healthcare Because they don't create enough (or any at all) utility to purchase goods and services. Capitalism isn't forcing you to do absolutely anything. The capitalist also doesn't win from this situation, since his goods and services aren't being consumed and he doesn't get wealthier.
>immoral And burdening strangers with your needs is moral? If you don't live in a country with a social safety net or don't have relatives/friends/other to take care of you voluntarily, you absolutely deserve to die.
Blake Reed
>this shit again
Jordan Bell
>commiecucks are so pathetic and useless they can't even defend their memes irl
Austin Howard
>read definition of communism >looks at supposed "communist nations" and what their polices were that answers your question right there retard
Anthony Sanders
Socialism doesn't require central planning.
>Capitalism isn't forcing you to do absolutely anything. It forces you to participate in the market if you want to survive. You might as well say you're not actually "required" to pay taxes, follow the speed limit, respect property rights, and so on, because once you decide that losing your life is an "acceptable consequence" and not something to be avoided at all costs, then there really isn't anything law enforcement can do to control you.
>And burdening strangers with your needs is moral? Yes, when the burden placed on strangers is relatively small compared to the benefit you receive from it? Ever heard of diminishing marginal utility? It basically says, the more of something you have, the less each unit of it is worth to you on average. So if we have a society composed of two people, one who has ten widgets and other has just one, then taking one widget from the person with ten and giving it to the person with one would lead to an overall increase in that society's well-being, all other things being equal.
>If you don't live in a country with a social safety net or don't have relatives/friends/other to take care of you voluntarily, you absolutely deserve to die. So people deserve to die preventable deaths due to circumstances they have no control over? I don't see that making sense from anything but a nihilist perspective.
Brody Perez
what does the meme even mean, der ebil reactionaries torpedoed every communist movement since the beginning of time so the soviet union doesn't count? Goddamn the ecsocialists are irritating
Owen Clark
Leftypol memes in Veeky Forums
behold the alt-left
Oliver Martin
>You know what's good for you better than some suit somewhere else Exactly, so why should workplaces be run by absentee owners rather than the people that actually work in them?
Sebastian Adams
>why should workplaces be run by absentee owners rather than the people that actually work in them?
Why should workers control the business when the business owner took on all the investment and risk? Why should workers be "democratically" mandated to receive a share in the profit when the business owner has not only taken on all the investment and risk, but also is working to make the business successful? Workers decide to work for a business, under a contract of mutual consent, because they see utility in the financial security of being an employee. This is the employee's "profit," financial security. It's a decision analysis question. If the worker thinks that they can get a better deal at another business, he can change jobs.
Jacob Evans
>Socialism doesn't require central planning.
Socialism doesn't work without central planning.
Jordan Adams
It even admits the Soviets were among those reactionaries though. It basically says that non-totalitarian Communism has never succeeded because every attempt was stopped either by anti-communists or by totalitarian communists.
>Why should workers control the business when the business owner took on all the investment and risk? Because the workers are the ones who suffer when the business owner makes a poor decision.
>Workers decide to work for a business, under a contract of mutual consent There can't really be consent when the choice is wage slavery or starvation.
>It's a decision analysis question. If the worker thinks that they can get a better deal at another business, he can change jobs. Except the issue is that none of the businesses allow them to receive the full value of their labor.
>forces Whoa, today I was forced to shop at the store. >if you want to survive Plant your own crops, produce your own medicine, faggot. Nobody is forcing you shit.
>Yes, when the burden placed on strangers is relatively small compared to the benefit you receive from it Nice mindwank. Where does "small" even end? >diminishing marginal utility >one who has ten widgets and other has just one, then taking one widget from the person with ten and giving it to the person with one would lead to an overall increase in that society's well-being, all other things being equal. This works in realtion to the consumer and not the producer. And producers are the one that are "supposed" to feed the retards in your scenario. If I produced a truckload of bread, I would sell it, not give it away at a loss.
>no control over Classic excuse. If you're black, all you can do is lie and wait for FAO to feed your useless ass. God forbid you plant something or move closer to water sources.
And again, nobody is responsible for your wellbeing, aside from you yourself.
Jonathan Morgan
I didn't say that though. The Soviets WERE Communists, but totalitarian Communists, which many people didn't like for obvious reasons. And they refused to allow other Communists to reform the system away from totalitarianism while maintaining the Communist economic model.
Brandon Miller
It means ideological darwinism. If your "supr speshul" brand of communism cannot establish and defend itself, then it doesn't deserve to exist. (not that anarchism/communism doesn't fall apart by itself or anything).
Julian Moore
>this never happens in capitalist countries lol
Carter Gutierrez
>Plant your own crops, produce your own medicine, faggot. Nobody is forcing you shit. Can't do that if you don't own land.
>I would sell it, not give it away at a loss. If you were allowed to.
>Classic excuse. If you're black, all you can do is lie and wait for FAO to feed your useless ass. God forbid you plant something or move closer to water sources. I was talking about severely disabled people, thanks for letting me know you're a racist though.
>And again, nobody is responsible for your wellbeing, aside from you yourself. So once again, you're saying that disabled people don't deserve to live.
Hudson Roberts
From what I've heard, anarcho-communism worked pretty well until external actors decided they didn't want it to exist.
Jayden Reed
>external actors Exactly my point. If you can't defeat "external actors" you ain't shit.
Wyatt Fisher
>East Timor killings weren't in the hundreds of thousands *revisionism intensifies*
Juan Parker
>why should a country be run democratically when the original founders took the risk to found it? If the citizens don't like their country they could always move This is how you sound.
Blake Gonzalez
>if Rhodesia couldn't defend itself, it shouldn't have been allowed to exist
Jonathan Brown
>Can't do that if you don't own land. If you want land, you go earn enough cash and you buy it from it's owner. Or you could just squat on public property (if you don't live in the north american police state, that is)
>If you were allowed to. By whom. Last time I checked, I can sell whatever I like. If you live in totalitarian distopia, that's your problem, not mine.
>disabled people >implying being black and having a 2 standard deviations lower IQ isn't a disability Again, disabled people are responsible for themselves. I am not responsible for their wellbeing. >don't deserve to live They deserve what they get, nothing more nothing less. If a quadruple amputee deaf bling mentally disabled child has 1 billion dollars, it's their money to spend. I don't care. My life is mine, their is theirs. No handuts no nothing.
Logan Lopez
Yes. Whites have no business living in Africa.
Hudson Carter
>The 2005 report of the UN's Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in East Timor (CAVR) reports an estimated minimum number of conflict-related deaths of 102,800 (+/- 12,000).
Nice try commie
Jordan Robinson
t. Robber Mugarbage
Jayden Thomas
>They deserve what they get, nothing more nothing less. If a quadruple amputee deaf bling mentally disabled child has 1 billion dollars, it's their money to spend. I don't care. My life is mine, their is theirs. No handuts no nothing. So why should anyone go out of their way to protect your property rights if someone stronger and better-armed than you takes your stuff?
Nolan Long
Name me one example of any of these happening in capitalist countries
Henry Reed
I'm not even communist. I just know that the 1975 invasion killed something like 1/3 of the population.
Josiah Torres
Marxist thinking is flawed at its core because it believes class consciousness is stronger than religious or cultural consciousness.
Luis Davis
Because the police and army are paid to protect private property and the nation as a whole with my taxes. >go out of their way I don't expect them to protect me for free.
Michael White
Nope, Africa should be left to handle it's civilizational problems by itself, just like how Europe did. They obviously don't have the capacity for modern civilization yet.
Easton Brown
>Haiti >Guatemala >El Salvador >Chile >Brazil >basically all of Africa >Pakistan >Indonesia >Philippines >Mexico >Batista's Cuba >South Africa before 1994 >Spain >Portugal >Argentina >even the USA at some points
Brody Reyes
Religious consciousness has been dying for decades (at least in the West) and cultural consciousness has increasingly taken a different form, while the economic class disparity is continuing to grow. Keep in mind, according to Marx, modern-day America is far more ripe for Communist revolution than Tsarist Russia ever was.
Camden Davis
So you're also okay with the fact that your tax money goes to help disabled people that would otherwise be unable to provide for themselves?
Daniel Williams
This is only in the west aka north america and europe.
In every other part of the world religion and culture is stronger.
Tyler Ward
The same changes seem to be happening in the rest of the world, they're just somewhat behind the West.
Adam Clark
humanities """discussion""" isn't welcome here, none of your brainlets have shown that you're smart enough for it, excluding the obvious bait posters that use humanities as a flimsy excuse to shitpost.
Adrian Taylor
Not really. Third world countries are protecting their culture and heritage unlike europeans and north americans.
Aiden Phillips
>Chile >Brazil >Argentina >Indonesia All fascist
>Haiti >Guatemala >El Salvador >Philippines >Mexico >Batista's Cuba >South Africa before 1994 >Spain >Portugal Name on example of hundreds of thousands being killed in any of those countries by capitalists
Benjamin Clark
>im not being a revisionist! here! >posts revisionist horseshit
hahah hahahahhahahaha oh my fucking god dude
Samuel Peterson
For the time being. But I don't think it will last for long, seeing as the changing attitudes seem to be a consequence of industrialization.
Luis Rodriguez
>fascist >not capitalist lol Guatemala and Spain saw hundreds of thousands killed, Haiti, El Salvador, Cuba, Mexico, and the Philippines saw tens of thousands each killed, and South Africa may have seen a million or more killed.
Tyler Perez
>communism is a theoretical system of social science that can not and has not been proven to be superior to existing systems Not even pro-communist, just want to say that the people that tote around the success of the current system tend to focus in on that success and fail to take into account its myriad of failures. More accurately, they disregard the failures by hand waving them away as systems that are in development or subject to quasi-communist laws.
So despite there being only a small secluded handful of communist states in the world (which usually are actually more technically conform to some middle-ground), most trumpeters of the success of capitalism ignore the fact that the world economy is heavily interdependent and linked to the point that the successes cannot be divorced from the failures. That said, 2/3 of the world lives in poverty to the betterment of the remaining 1/3, I would not categorize that as a successful system.
Kayden Parker
The positives, for me at least, from the system outweight the negatives. I wouldn't pay them anything, if I had a say.