Gary Childress wrote: ↑Thu Feb 23, 2023 1:23 am
Proxy wars and espionage are not on the same scale as outright invasion. Look at Vietnam. There's nothing on the scale of what happened in Vietnam that Russia or China did to ANYONE.
Oh dear. You don't know about Vietnam?
Vietnam was a proxy war that the Viet Cong were losing, until China intervened. Really, it was an America-China conflict, ultimately.
Socialism was the best answer humanity could think of
How sad is that!
Their "best answer" turned out to be the most homicidal creed in history, without equal or rival.
But capitalism is no prettier.
It can be ugly, too, I grant you. But it's never been as ugly as Socialism, nor has it piled up the corpses as high.
But these are not the only alternatives. The very term "Capitalism" is a Marxist term. They like you to think in strict binaries, such as "Either Communism or Capitalism." But there are plenty of other ways of doing things, and most of them are better than both.
For instance, even though there's no perfect alternative, a largely free-market system with strictly limited, democratic governance in areas of special public concern (such as national defense or infrastructure), controlled by a well-crafted constitution is likely to serve the world better than either of the extremes offered by the "Capitalism-Communism" diad.
They'd love you to think there are only two options: cruel "Capitalism" and utopian "Marxism." But if that's all we've got, we can't be worse off than the latter.