• CAPSLOCKFTW@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Just 5 communist countries. I can easily name 25 capitalist countries but only 5 communist countries would be enough for me to shut up.

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      1 year ago

      Truly communist countries? As in perfect communism? That doesn’t exist, as well as truly capitalist countries, that doesn’t exist as well.

      • Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 year ago

        I’d say the US is close to perfectly capitalist, if you have enough money you can just rent legislators and call that “lobbying” (as opposed to renting legislators and callying it “bribing” or “corruption”, which isn’t much better tbf).

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          The US is very good at playing the democracy/capitalism game. Democracy can’t be sustained by a capitalist economic system by the reasons you pointed out. Once money is involved in the mix, there is no democracy. You can buy everything with money.

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          1 year ago

          I’d say the US is close to perfectly capitalist

          Lol! What would “perfect capitalism” even look like? I’d say the only people who even imagines a “perfect capitalism” are magical capitalists like (so-called) anarcho-capitalists and objectivists - and the level of brain-rot you have to suffer from to buy into that kind of sixteen-dimensional logic-pretzel is next-to lethal.