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In the entirety of human history communism has never worked. Not once has any society been able to work on the ideals of it.
It's impossible to uncouple society from capitalism. It's not a possibility, but it definitely could work. Maybe capitalism just needs longer than communism to fail?
The wealthiest country in the world has unaffordable healthcare and homelessness, how is that capitalism working?
Yeah, because the US bombs them or funds terror cells or blockades their economy.
Cold War. Communism was hunted and destroyed whereever it arose.
If communism was so strong it wouldn't have to worry about capitalist intervention. You just proved my point of communism / socialism being weak if the apparent enemy is easily able to wreck you economy and implode your country it is not a strong system.
Might makes right, then?
I disagree. Countries controlled by communist parties today have retreated from socialism by enacting market reforms, but they haven't fallen. A fallen revolution wouldn't bother to call itself communist anymore.
China, in particular, seems to be on a good trajectory and has made a lot of progress towards socialism. There's a reason they tried harder than pretty much every other country on Earth to save their people during the pandemic, despite how much that might have hurt their economy.
China isn't communist, but it's progressive and they're getting there. The revolution just isn't over yet 😘
Zero COVID proves China is literally different than every other capitalist nation on Earth. Even if you don't believe the official data, the excess death rate (i.e. something they can't hide) shows they beat pretty much everyone other than extreme outliers like New Zealand.