So, can someone tell me again why communism is so bad?

[The Ghost of RubangB]

THREE POINTS, SUCKAS:

1) The U.S. is not capitalist at all. Every law we have that gets in the way of the invisible hand is a blow against capitalism. Yet these are all human rights issues, because without these laws the invisible hand would fist us into hell. Here are some examples:

8 hour shifts.
40 hour work weeks.
It's illegal to put 14 year olds to work in factories.
(Real American heroes fought and took bullets and died for these rights.)
Also, antitrust laws to stop monopolies.
(This was considered a huge blow to capitalism at the time. In a purely capitalist magic ideal 100% free market, we'd have to allow monopolies and assume that a smaller company would come up with competition and save the consumer. However, the bigger company buys the smaller company. Every time.)

2) China is really fucked up. It's not just Taiwan. It's Tibet. It's Tiananman Square. It's censorship of the entire internet. It's a total lack of transparency in government (we suffer from that last one in the U.S. as well actually).

3) Communism isn't inherently evil. If you compare communism and capitalism at their 100% pure magical impossible ideal levels, communism is much nicer. It's all about sharing. Pure capitalism is all about competition and survival of the fittest and is completely willing to let sick, hungry, insane, and homeless people die because they can't compete. Every country is somewhere in between the two because both ideals are impossible. It's impossible to get 100% of people to share when you have 1 greedy asshole. You gotta lock him up, kick him out, let him wander the streets, kill him, or "reeducate him." It's impossible to get 100% of people to compete when you have 1 sick person. You gotta let him die or the whole country becomes socialist when they take care of him.

The U.S. is pretty damn socialist with all its welfare and food stamps and taxes (a form of redistribution of wealth) but for some reason many Americans are ashamed to admit it. The U.S. hates communism because it is in denial of its own socialism. Americans hate welfare, but we're afraid of another depression so we can't just drop it.

China is socialist too. If they were 100% communist, why do they have a rich powerful elite class and a starving working class? If they were 100% communist, why do they have McDonalds?

But calling them "Communist China" every time you mention them on the news is pretty stupid. It's like all our news reporters grew up being trained to hate communism by watching too much G.I.Joe or something.