(05-09-2015, 10:58 PM)CrimsonTideFan Wrote: Ryccia, your view on communism is very skewed, but then again with us being Americans, it's relatively understandable. Here's the thing about those nations that were insanely radical. That's the thing, they were RADICAL. The jumped to a place beyond reason. If you really want to judge socialism, or even communism on such a thing; let's look at a few mishaps of capitalists.
-BK Kim, Geohazards specialist for BP and gave the world an idea about the amount of petroleum in the Gulf Coast that got spilled on the sea floor and how it's damaging the environment; also brought up the corner cutting, and half ass work BP did to make sure a leak wouldn't happen, has had multiple assassination attempts on his life.
-Any kind of drug-related war, cocaine, opium, you name it, if there's a illegal market for it, rival gangs will kill each other to control it.
-Bribery, vote-buying, etc., <-this one's pretty easy to understand but what the hell we'll name a few; KKK members payed to intimidate people to vote for certain people, Kellogg Brown & Root case, KBR built an illegal natural gas plant and paid the Nigerian government to okay it, and PG&E vs. the town of Hinkley, CA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinkley_gro...tamination

Capitalism is far, far from perfect Ryccia; and judging socialism by comparing it to people like: Castro, Pol Pot, Stalin, Kim Jong Il & Un is just like judging Islam by looking at ISIS, the Taliban, and Al-Qaeda. Nothing is good when it's used or taken to extremes.

I know that capitalism is flawed. But I like the system(without corruption of course). For me, its better than communism or socialism.

But what does a drug gang war have to do with capitalism? Im anti-drugs btw.