[yellow, angry]
I don’t like communism because every time we tried it, power corrupted people
[yellow, smiling and shrugging]
This is why I prefer capitalism, in which power corrupts people
[yellow, t-posing and drooling]
I am very smart and understand ideologies very well than you for coming to my TED talk
Er, wait, do you think Mao was a capitalist?
No? I don’t care if mao was capitalist or not
The modern China definitely is
Sure, but in the context of:
What Mao did to China had nothing to do with capitalism. Socialism and communism also struggle with the strong-man populist authoritarianism problem, and blaming capitalists for that makes no sense at all.
Nobody said anything about Mao, so that’s why we’re confused.
Cattail’s comment implies that the historical failures of socialist and communist societies is due to capitalists working to prevent them from reaching their true Utopian goals.
My point is that socialism and communism fail entirely on their own. Mao is obviously an extreme example, but far from the only such example.
For proponents of communist or socialist systems to blame capitalists as the reason they can’t have their perfect societies is pure deflection, a refusal to address their own internal problems in an honest way. It is hypocrisy and self-delusion.
No it doesn’t imply that you just misread it.