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Old 10-04-2008, 08:17 PM   #34
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Originally Posted by Phanuthier View Post
I wasn't making any reference to capitalism vs marxism, just made a comment on the recent events of the USA, notably the CEOs making a killing on their reverence packages. Calm down, peter.

Pure communism doesn't work because of corruption. I get that. Pure capitalism doesn't work either too, and we're seeing that now, among many other problems.
It's more complicated than that. Communism is essentially a utopian, one that is totally unrealizable by conventional means. Communism has implicit violence, it assumes that the state must coerce individuals to accomplishing the final goal of society.

Capitalism is just a social institution created around human nature. It assumes freedom, not equality.
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