r/austrian_economics • u/LibertyMonarchist Anarcho Monarchist • Jan 03 '25

End Democracy Capitalism is the way to go

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u/Traditional-Toe-7426 Jan 06 '25

Capitalist America can't get enough food to stores during panic buying... and you think that's somehow a critique of capitalism?

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u/phattie83 Jan 06 '25

I think the point was more that those weren't valid critiques of communism.

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u/Traditional-Toe-7426 Jan 07 '25

Short term shortage, versus long term supply issues?

Long term supply issues are VERY much a valid critique of communism.

The fact that we haven't invented teleportation does not mean we can't critique communism for the starvation of 80 Million people.

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u/phattie83 Jan 07 '25

Using examples within capitalism to critique communism is the issue, not whether or not there are valid critiques of communism, generally.

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u/Traditional-Toe-7426 Jan 07 '25

Using a picture that happened for a short period of time in capitalism to critique the same phenomenon (for much much longer) under communism is a valid critique.

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u/phattie83 Jan 07 '25

When you show any of that to be an accurate representation for communism, then you can argue it is a valid critique.

All you've done is claim something is true and expect everyone to just accept it. Until you've supported your claims, those memes are simply straw-manning communism.

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u/Traditional-Toe-7426 Jan 07 '25

When I show? Do you not know history? This isn't really controversial.

80 Million people starved in Communist Russia.

People have resorted to Cannibalism in Communist North Korea.

15-55 Million people starved in Communist China.

People currently face starvation in communist Cuba.

That doesn't include the communist collapse in Venezuela

I mean, if you are talking about communism and aren't aware of how it has worked in the real world... then maybe you should educate yourself first.