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  1. LordsFire

    Both Capitalism and Communism are Scams

    The problem that you're running into, is that in the 20th century so many nations decided that America was the cool kid, and they should copy what the cool kid was doing, since it was working so well. And then they completely failed to understand the how and why of American and how it works...
  2. LordsFire

    Both Capitalism and Communism are Scams

    The 'Gilded age' had problems, but it's largely communist propaganda that depicts it as utterly catastrophic. Part of it's taking the worst instances of 'company store' nonsense, and acting like that was what happened everywhere all the time. Part of it is the lack of perspective of what the...
  3. LordsFire

    Both Capitalism and Communism are Scams

    Well, his analysis right from the start is wrong. Welfare states don't immunize against revolutionary tendencies, they enable them, and normalize the concept of the nanny state. He also mis-identifies ethnic sectarianism of being a part of the right. The left has and continues to be the primary...
  4. LordsFire

    Both Capitalism and Communism are Scams

    The fundamental problem you have here, @*THASF* , is that you're conflating an economic system, with 'an entire culture.' Free Market economics are just that, economics. How well or poorly the economic system does depends very heavily on what moral system it is wedded to. Communism isn't...
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