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Capitalism Works — When It’s Not Corrupted

September 25, 2009 - 12:00 am - by Tom Blumer
David S
2009-09-25 12:06:01

@29. goy:

As usual, you didn’t present an argument, Zippy. Like so many unsuccessfully educated moral adolescents, all you did was make an asinine, objectively idiotic assertion, claiming that capitalism is the single most destructive force the planet has ever seen.

Apparently you are having some trouble with reading comprehension. Try again – I made no such claim. You are the one making an asinine, objectively idiotic assertion by trying to put words in my mouth.

As anyone can plainly see by clicking the link I provided, your assertion is not only patently absurd but, far worse, it trivializes the murders of the tens of millions who died at the hands of communist regimes.

In case you didn’t notice, I’m not a communist, and I don’t support totalitarianism. Pointing out that capitalism is massively destructive does not imply that other forces are not. I wish you could keep up.

Try all you like to distance yourself from those murders, Zippy, but the ideology which made all that brutality possible was international socialism a/k/a communism. If we add those murdered by national socialists, we can increase the number by quite a few more millions. Do the math. It’s an exercise you sorely need.

The fact that you can’t tell the difference between democratic socialism and totalitarian communism is your own problem, not mine. You can avoid addressing the inherent problems in capitalism – but I won’t.

Socialism – in its various forms both national and international – is clearly the most destructive force the planet has ever seen. And contrary to the specious nonsense you think passes for “reason”, there is objective, verifiable proof to back that up.

If you actually had any evidence to back it up, you haven’t shared it here. You assert that socialism is the most destructive force the planet has ever seen, but it is capitalism that threatens human health and welfare on a global scale. You accuse me of making an asinine, objectively idiotic assertion – but in reality, you are the one making the ungrounded assertions here. Go back and read what I wrote before you make a bigger fool of yourself.

Peace.

DS