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Originally Posted by Kronus
thank you for calling me holy. you may be my high priest from now on.
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I was talking to Holyshadow, thus the use of a comma between your names.
Holy, the thing is, Capitalism - true capitalism - has been attempted and it failed woefully. True capitalism took Britain from being the powerful Empire on the planet to recession, starvation and eventually socialism.
On the other hand, Keynesian economics took Germany from being a broken post-war nation to being the economic driving force behind modern-day Europe.
It was the capitalistic love for deregulation that led to our current recession. The problem with capitalism is that its supporters assume that if everyone is working as hard as they can to survive, they will naturally progress - just simply is not true. Humans will always be far stronger when they work together than when they work for just themselves.
Communism on the other hand has never been attempted because no one has even gotten close to setting up a state which fellows actual communist ideals - setting up a totalitarian socialist state and calling it communist, a communist state, it does not make. I mean, the first thing to go in a true communist state is the 'state'.
As for the starvation point, I will forgive your ignorance as you do come from a country which contributes about 90 per cent of the obeast people for that statistic (not a real stat), but you have completely missed the point - if we have enough food to have more obeast people than starving people, why is anyone starving and why are both the USA and the UK only three days from starvation at any given time?