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> communism didn't work in russia

It didn't work anywhere else, either, and it's been tried thousands of times. Note I did not say "Soviet Union".



A nitpick about country names, really? These are really low-effort comments. And you keep trying to derail the conversation back to communism even though you're the only one fascinated by it here.

Do you also refuse to learn basic physics because Isaac Newton was imperfect and despite coming up with some great physical laws, also believed some nonsense about alchemy that later was shown to be nonsense?

Do you bring up the craziness of alchemy every time newtonian mechanics comes up, and refuse to believe in momentum, mass, and kinetic energy?

Having to argue about this crap every time Marx comes up is tiring and intellectually ineffecient.

At this point I wish we could blame just the smart things Marx said on someone else like say, Mark Twain, just so the adults in the room can discuss the workings, benefits, and problems of capitalism without constantly getting interrupted by irrelevant low-effort arguing.


I didn't say "russia", either. You brought up country names, put it in quotes, and attributed it to me.


I would normally agree with you but I'm bored with both of these takes. Communism bad, no communism actually not bad. Whatever. Can we move past this already?

What I want is a good faith argument for something that works as a solution for Marx stated problem. What can we propose? What can we learn?


Capitalism has many good mechanisms for dealing with externalities. The most obvious one is to tax it.




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