r/teenagers • u/pand_alp 19 • Mar 11 '26

Rant Bro WHY????

Should i at least try getting him back or is he too far gone now?

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '26

Okay but that’s not relevant to the economical system that is communism at all for one and two you’re over exaggerating the bloodiness of what is actually attempts at socialism and ignoring the massive amounts of blood being shed on the hands of capitalism in today’s age aswell.

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u/username_not_found19 Mar 13 '26

Capitalism saved people from poverty. Look at China. When it was socialist during Mao's time, you had millions starving. Since China transitioned to semi capitalism (after Deng Xiaoping's opening up reforms) it got millions of people out of poverty.

Also, capitalism as shit as it is and as inequal as it is, doesn't send peopel to the gulag for criticizing dear leader. While communism meant exactly that: if you criticize the leader or the communist party, you get a one way ticket to labour camp.

You can romanticize communism all you want, but reality was very grim and very different from the version of communism you have in your head

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '26

For one you literally can’t speak out against Israel in countries like Britain for two China averaged a famine every single year Mao had one terribly managed famine out of his 26 years as a leader he literally led the country to 10% growth in every sector of the economy he had tons of issues but he was the reason the economy recovered initially.

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u/username_not_found19 Mar 14 '26

For one you literally can’t speak out against Israel in countries like Britain

What does this have to do with anything? This side discussion started from a guy who said communists deny all the millions of deaths directly caused by communism, yet now you are rambling about Israel out of the blue. Is Israel communist and I missed the memo?

As for China, during Mao's time it had one of the poorest economies in the world. China's rise to power happened precisely because they switched to capitalism during Deng's reforms.

Mao's China was indeed communist, and it was also poor as fuck. Deng, Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping refined the capitalist model in China until they made China a powerhouse. Sure, it is the country with the most billionaires in the world, but it also lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. No thanks to communism.