Who killed Mr. Boddy in the study and with what?: the great debate topic™®

[beachbum111111]

you mean the "handicapped system" that liberated hundreds of millions of people from different places for 100 years?

You mean "liberated" them from existence?

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[Frequency]

you mean the "handicapped system" that liberated hundreds of millions of people from different places for 100 years?

good troll my man  

[OrangeMan]

You mean "liberated" them from existence?

http://monthlyreview.org/commentary/did-mao-really-kill-millions-in-the-great-leap-forward/

learn the FACTS instead of american propaganda. If Mao killed that many people, he would have been overthrown, duh.

[Alteration]

you mean the "handicapped system" that liberated hundreds of millions of people from different places for 100 years?

And by 'liberate' you mean kill? Beachbum beat me to it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin#Calculating_the_number_of_victims
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine

[beachbum111111]

http://monthlyreview.org/commentary/did-mao-really-kill-millions-in-the-great-leap-forward/

learn the FACTS instead of american propaganda. If Mao killed that many people, he would have been overthrown, duh.

Yes because I can rely on a "socialist magazine" to be impartial. Even though the Chinese government themselves even admitted that they killed at least 15 million people.

[Juncoph]

can we just accept that the western world has actually hit an excellent balance between socialism and capitalism? the world economy is firmly laissez-faire, and we still get to have things like public education, emergency services, and roads. it's far from perfect, and we have tons of corruption, but that's just how powerplay works. no totalitarian communist collectives purging intellectuals and the wealthy and no anarchocapitalist plutocracies where human rights are seen as optional in the eyes of the mega corporations. unless we root up all cultures' understanding of dynastic inheritance, true meritocracies are an impossible goal past the founding generation.

[LeisureSuit912]

Socialism would only work when human labor essentially becomes obsolete (and we may be seeing ourselves on a path towards that with the growth of automaton, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU) and we have no need whatsoever for capital or economies in general. We'd first have to eliminate the concept of wealth before we'd even consider a full-on socialist society.

On the other hand, trying to emulate aspects of a socialist economy, such as more government intervention in the economy (aka social democracy) would work within the framework of a capitalist society.

So basically you could go Bernie Sanders but not full-on Karl Marx.

[Perry]

communism in theory is like a bunch of body parts mushed together expected to work with each other and provide

communism in practice is a body with no brain. it doesn't function and just eats itself

[Frequency]

can we just accept that the western world has actually hit an excellent balance between socialism and capitalism?

i mean i can get behind that

good post

[Ninja Decoy]

Communism is an idea that sounds good on paper but will never really work in the real world.

[Punished Toxicology]

jonestown was a socialist utopia 🤔🤔💭

[JumboMuffin]

to me it doesnt sound good on paper and doesnt work too

[Cheze]

Communism is an idea that sounds good on paper but will never really work in the real world.

[Satan From Wreck-It-Ralph]

maybe in a small country

[MoltenKitten]

better dead than red