Would America have been better off as a Cummunist country? ( whisper edit*or socialist)

[the2real4mafol]

I think you should take bits from both ideologies. Pure communism and Pure capitalism models of society aren't very good. From the communist or socialist side, stuff like free education, free healthcare, better social housing and nationalisation of energy, banks (one national bank where you would borrow from at very low interest rates to invest in creating new companies), communication and transport (any actual human needs). While from the capitalist side, the true luxury goods (our human wants) would remain under private, individual ownership. Political freedoms and such would remain. But there is a need for a responsible government which directly provides for it's people to ensure a good basic standard of life. It could be seen as a social-capitalist model of society. Yugoslavia was a good (really, the only) example of how the two could work together and be successful. Tito was a great man

But don't act as China (not communist since Mao died in 1976) is so great. Corruption is far worse over there, the environment isn't cared for and there is a lack of human rights. All of which are very important. Also, it don't matter whether you are communist or capitalist, war will happen, it just depends on the leader of the country. Finally, there are alot of problems in society that one ideology simply couldn't fix