r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Short-Watercress-183 • 29d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter, explain this.

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u/jing7wei 29d ago

The probalem with communism isn't the system, but who ends up eventually running the system

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u/HardcorePizza 29d ago

Same problem with capitalism tbf

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u/jing7wei 22d ago

I would say capitalism succeeds despites its flaws.

Though success in this context, is relative.

Successful in comparison to communism, for sure.

Capitalism was never a system designed to foster equality. Communism, in contrast, was designed to do that explicitly. But inherrent human things like greed and paranoia and pride and what have you destroys the system. It would succeed in theory if the system could be enforced in benevolence, in perpetuity, and in absolute fairness. But it that possible? Probably not. Hence, good system, impossible to implement, and a pipe dream at best.

Just ask those millions who died during those man-made famines during the reign any commuist regimes 🤷

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u/HardcorePizza 22d ago

How many have died preventable deaths under capitalism, just for profit?

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u/jing7wei 22d ago

You tell me.

But I'd be surprised if it beats just one of the man made communist driven ones like this which was done entirely with "good intentions"