04-06-2014, 11:47 PM
(04-06-2014, 11:09 PM)Grungie Wrote: Well they know about those people, but they don't really know about their policies and what they actually did.That's what I mean. You bring up how Mao's policies caused the death of millions of Chinese and how China didn't become a world power until began to embrace capitalist practices...and their arguments just fall apart. It's like they could be bothered to check wikipedia for the very basics.
(04-06-2014, 11:32 PM)JoelCarli Wrote: Thing is, from a purely theoretical standpoint, I'd consider myself a socialist in principle, because YEAH! SHARING!, but a capitalist in practice, since it's the best we've got at the moment and obviously communism has never worked out.Same. I mean, socialism really has never worked. Ever since the first failed experiments. Even Europe, which people think is socialist, is pretty much capitalist.