Book me a first class ticket to China to be a factoriy worker? Really? Your response shows that I'm the real patriot with the better argument. I point out the problems in America, in captialism. and your response is that I should move to China.
Did I say I want to live in China? I'm not a factory worker in America, why would I have to have that job in China? Should I say you should be a black man prison in California forced to fight fires as a slave and then we compare which system is worse?
The US has more prisoners numerically than China, and we have 1/4 of China's population. Slavery is legal in the US for prisoners, and that carve out in the 14th (IIRC) amendment is being used all over the US. Not a great US-China comparison
The real telling point is that you don't just accept criticism of capitalism or the emprical fact that the Chinese system, flawed as it is (IMO), has raised more people out of poverty in a shorter period of time than any capitalist system in history. Instead,
your response is to invent some fictive hoop that you demand I jump through. To quote Quentin Tarrantino, "I'm not your fucking monkey."
There is no such thing as a "pure" communist national system, just as there is no pure national capitalist system. All nations are a mixture of socialism (i.e. communism) and capitalism, and in some cases feudalism.
Can you name me a single nation that is pure communist? Can you name me a single nation that is pure capitalist?
Back to the start of the discussion. Your claim is that the "known to be dangerous" communism was a result of WWI. Well clearly the capitalist systems are the ones that brought us WWI. The USSR did not start WWII. That was fascist Germany. That would be authoritarian capitalist Germany and Italy. Not the "dangerous" communists. So we've got WWI, WWII, plus at least 200 years worth of wars prior on the balance sheet of the capitalists.
You really want to continue to defend capitalism as less dangerous than communism?
To my mind authoritarianism is the danger. Consolidation of power and wealth in a few hands. What system of government nominally or ostensibly is behind the authoritarianism is secondary or tertiary.
Keep that in mind as censorship, internal state violence and consolidation of wealth and power continue to rise in capitalist America.
