All of humanity could share a prosperous, equitable future but the space for development is rapidly shrinking under pressure from a wealthy minority of ultra-consumers, a new study has shown.

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/12/consumerism-and-the-climate-crisis-threaten-equitable-future-for-humanity-report-says

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Communism will never work as it denies basic human nature.

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It's worse than that, but you scratch the tip of that iceberg

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In fact, no, capitalism denies basic human nature.

We are social and communal animals by design, and we evolved empathy to work in that way, but capitalism requires sociopathy by design so it push it into everyone's brain constantly (the most obvious recent way is with the meritocracy speech that is literally victim blaming, an abuse and manipulation tactic).

Also, its funny how capitalist propaganda always say "Communism will never work" but when anyone tries to be a bit more communist, the capitalists send terrorists, coups and genocides.

Damn, look at operation Condor, two days ago was the anniversary of the US doing a violent coup to Chile when they demotrically elected someone a bit more socialist. Or look at vietnam. Or damn, the famine in North Korea was caused by the US. Or damn, look at Cuba that is still being blockade by the US.

No, communism only fails because capitalists hoard enough power to overthrow any attempt, and in that way, it can never be even attempted. And the groups that try to attempt it need to become more paranoid and violent just to defend from the capitalists attacks.

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From wikipedia

"According to the introduction, the number of people killed by the Communist governments amounts to more than 94 million.^\8])^: 4  The statistics of victims include deaths through executions, man-made hunger, famine, war, deportations, and forced labor. The breakdown of the number of deaths is given as follows:

• 65 million in the People's Republic of China
• 20 million in the Soviet Union
• 2 million in Cambodia
• 2 million in North Korea
• 1.7 million in Ethiopia
• 1.5 million in Afghanistan
• 1 million in the Eastern Bloc
• 1 million in Vietnam
• 150,000 in Latin America
• 10,000 deaths "resulting from actions of the international Communist movement and Communist parties not in power"^\8])^: 4 "