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Originally Posted by mafia_man
It's an account of anarchism in Spain circa 1930s.
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So you avoided my question. Why is that?
We all know why, there are no examples. Every single time anyone has tried to create this wonderful dream it's gone pear shaped and always the workers ended up with less, or capitalism was bank rolling it.
The places with the highest paid workers in the world are those run on a capitalist system. Redistribute the wealth made by capitalism, but capitalism still has to create the wealth first. And you have to leave a lot for the creators, or they go to where they are appreciated better.
Put workers in charge and it ends up a disaster most times. What usually happens is a Lenin starts is off with a dream and Stalin takes it over. Or a Pol Pot starts it and we know where that went.
The list of failures of countries who attempted your dream isn't long. The rest of the world knew it was a screw up.
N. Korea.
Cambodia
USSR
Cuba
China, until it adopted the capitalism system.
Yes we should do more to protect the weak, vulnerable, dispossessed and eradicate poverty. But I would rather be poor in a capitalist country than any that tried your experiment.
Now tell me no one has ever tried.
So you want us to all abandon a system that does work, for some experiment that never will. And what then will happen to the weak, vulnerable, dispossessed and poor?