charlieBox

The three communist/socialist countries I know is China, Vietnam and North Korea and the general public do NOT elect their president. They do vote for local representatives but don’t vote for president. It’s like voting for a city board member who then vote for city mayor who then votes for state governor who then gets to vote for president.

Labor is not the workers only commodity. Workers in USA own land, they own 401ks, they have private businesses that employ others. Which btw, you only lease land from the government in China. You do not own land. Also, China only saw prosperity after adopting capitalist style business models.

Who are the capitalist you’re talking about? Everyone in USA is a capitalist when we go grocery shopping or buy a new car. We the people decide market price.

Explain Moa, explain Kim Jung un.

Are there any examples of democratic communism?

They both have one function and that is to spread resources best. Capitalism let the free market decide how much something is worth. Your labor is decided by how much someone will pay and you decide what you want to eat for dinner with the free market and decide what livestock or plants get planted in the following year based on what people will buy.

Communism relies on a central planner. Someone that could be hundreds of miles away from you. You think they will know what resources you need? What if that person was Donald Trump deciding for you?

Btw, communism and socialism are was more protective. So low immigration, less tolerance.

Are we counting the deaths from the the famine caused by the Chinese Great Leap Forward lead by the communist party?

Communism sounds good but it depends on who leading to make good decisions. I would not want a communist system under Donald Trump

In communism the whole makes the individual. In capitalism the individual makes the whole