| gigaSheik said: All I know is that millions of human beings died because of this shitty ideology. Its nothing but a dictatorship manual and everyone that supports it is either and idiot or a potential mass murderer. |
I don't know that all modern socialists are either idiots or murderers -- but I think that they are, at least, under informed/ignorant. Or they have convinced themselves that what hasn't worked before will somehow work now. That their version of socialism is somehow different. (I don't describe this as "idiocy," necessarily; many intelligent people can fall into this trap.)
Whatever we call it, it is a shame. The 20th Century was full of blood and death, and the main takeaway lessons are that socialism and fascism are failed ideologies on a massive level. Yet here we are, just a few decades later, and both socialists and fascists want a second try to turn the world into a graveyard.
We need to learn from our mistakes.
| VGPolyglot said: Again, if we're going that route we can say that many millions upon millions have died because of capitalism. |
Maybe you don't understand capitalism very well (many people don't), but capitalism has resulted in an unparalleled explosion of wealth, innovation, and standard of living.
