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Forums - Politics - Conservative activist Charlie Kirk murdered in Utah

Hiku on 12 September 2025
curl-6 said:
Hiku said:

I don't want to go too far off on a tangent.

But communism is not inherantly evil. Unlike nazism.
It's basically just that society should be classless, moneyless, etc.

People often conflate it with authoritarianism, because the most known example of nations that claimed to be communistic were also authoritarian.
But that is something entierly different, and has occured in nations that are capitalistic as well. Still does.

People that wish death on nazis are apparently doing so specifically because some nazis want certain groups of people dead based on their birth, as part of their ideology. There's no equivalence to that in communism.

In theory yes.

In practise though, communism is responsible for some of the most brutal regimes in history, which killed tens of millions in the 20th century alone, more than even the Nazis.

Well things happening under communism are not neccesarily because of communism.
That's why people tend to attribute those things to authoritarian rule.

Estimates of annual deaths due to lack of healthcare in the U.S range from 40 -100 thousand per year.
Does that mean that capitalism is responsible?
No because literally every other capitalistic developed nation on the planet have universal healthcare, in some way shape or form.

Maybe I'll make a separate thread discussing this later.