In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically.
Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is self-sustaining capacity, livelihood and dignity of its innumerable and multiplied 'host organisms' into which all of us are drawn/seduced one way or another.
The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
America has thrived on capitalism, and America will thrive again on capitalism.
If you are in Brazil and you grew up in a right-wing dictatorship, you think Marxism is liberating. But if you grew up in Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union is controlling everything and killing people, then you think capitalism is liberating. Neither of those two things are true and it doesn't take a lot brains to understand this.
The Soviet Union used the exploitation of workers under capitalism as an agitational issue to subvert Western democracies even as it practiced slave labor at home.
Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.
Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.
Communism may be over as an economic system, but as a model of state domination, it is very much alive in the People's Republic of China and in Putin's police state.