08-21-2005, 08:57 PM
Too long with too many mistakes to address everything, but heres a few things.
1
"Not as evil as a government that lets people starve and die of curable diseases in the richest country of the earth. Communism may not work in reality, but 1) that doesn't make them evil, and 2) this isn't an excuse to take the exact opposite path."
Thats dumb. A goverment is evaluated on its average effect on people and its ability to improve.
Communism failed utterly in both respects. Its reaonable to apply the evil tag to someone who created as system that hurt so many and helped so few. The notion of evil is indded subjective so people can define it many ways. The American or western European systems have issues indeed, but they do consistantly improve.
2
"Nazism is the evil offspring of capitalism, though."
Thats false - at least in the relative manner you relayed it.
History shows that Communism(not socialism) gets stuck in a totalitarian state.
Fascism on the other hand seems to be a result a bankrupt economy. Nazies never could have rose to power if France et al had not made a concious effort to keep Germany weak.
3 You are making the HUGE and general mistake of comparing capitalism to Communism.
"Capitalism" is a rather large umbrela title that should be compared to "socialism".
See these 3 conceptual mistakes up fronty I feel that nothing you said is well thought out.
1
"Not as evil as a government that lets people starve and die of curable diseases in the richest country of the earth. Communism may not work in reality, but 1) that doesn't make them evil, and 2) this isn't an excuse to take the exact opposite path."
Thats dumb. A goverment is evaluated on its average effect on people and its ability to improve.
Communism failed utterly in both respects. Its reaonable to apply the evil tag to someone who created as system that hurt so many and helped so few. The notion of evil is indded subjective so people can define it many ways. The American or western European systems have issues indeed, but they do consistantly improve.
2
"Nazism is the evil offspring of capitalism, though."
Thats false - at least in the relative manner you relayed it.
History shows that Communism(not socialism) gets stuck in a totalitarian state.
Fascism on the other hand seems to be a result a bankrupt economy. Nazies never could have rose to power if France et al had not made a concious effort to keep Germany weak.
3 You are making the HUGE and general mistake of comparing capitalism to Communism.
"Capitalism" is a rather large umbrela title that should be compared to "socialism".
See these 3 conceptual mistakes up fronty I feel that nothing you said is well thought out.