As a Venezuelan currently living in Venezuela, I have always believed that the problem is not so much communism / socialism, but rather the incompetence and corruption of our leaders.

In fact, I could argue that if it weren’t for my country’s socialist policies, I and many people would have died of disease (COVID) or starvation.

The problem is always about authority. The system that enforces the rules is more important than the rules themselves

Communism typically fails because the systems that manage it are corruptible. Capitalism has the opposite problem. If there are no rules surrounding what industry is allowed to do, they will always choose the most profitable thing.

Prescriptively adhering to a communist ideology: ❌

Prescriptively adhering to a capitalist ideology: ❌

Structuring a government to be free of corruption and able to efficiently and rationally respond to problems: ✅

If all communism is soviet, then all capitalism is colonialism and chattel slavery.

is this bait?

The few attempts at communism have nothing on the all life on earth destroying efficiency of runaway capitalism. Literally billions of people and animals have been wiped out with colonialism and capitalism. We really need to start getting more enlightened on various forms of government that have been tried and build a better constitution after the inevitable revolution otherwise these pedophile ghouls will just build us another cage. Also, it’s very important we start identifying narcissists, wealth hoarders and psychopaths as mentally ill and removing their ability to gain any levers of power. It seems like a lot of failed systems were destroyed because narcissists and psychopaths were rewarded for their mental illness. https://coupsaveamerica.substack.com/p/capitalisms-deadly-legacy-hundreds

https://www.mediafax.ro/english/most-romanians-consider-communist-regime-rather-a-good-thing-inscop-poll-shows-23584386

A recent poll conducted by INSCOP Research for the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile (IICCMER) reveals that more than half of Romanians (55.8%) believe that the communist regime was "rather a good thing for Romania."

What was grandma doing in the 1940s?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania_in_World_War_II

USA can have one Socialism as a treat (it seems to be going well enough in Canada)

Okay fed.

Communism and socialism do not necessarily equal whatever USSR was doing.

We may support socialism and communism without left imperialism and occupation.

Same energy as "I have a black friend, I can't be racist." but with the uneducated smugness of a liberal.

Your "communist Polish grandpa" is irrelevant, nobody cares about his opinion. It's standard reactionary drivel.

After informing this lady I know her grandpa was a CIA plant and deserved to be shot for protesting:

A tankie’s dialogue options:

1. It wasn’t real communism
2. It was great. She’s just influenced by US propaganda
3. It would’ve worked if it weren’t for US sabotage
4. Capitalism is way worse!!

Here they come!

Typical reactionary Pole

Fuggen librul nozi it wasn't rael communism