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In reply to the discussion: Capitalism is not the enemy. Capitalism has improved the Lives of millions. [View all]socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)History (a TRUE history) shows that one of the BIGGEST, if not the biggest, problems with collectivist approaches was that they were NOT GIVEN A CHANCE TO WORK WITHOUT INTERFERENCE BY THE CAPITALISTS. This is SO often overlooked, but it is a HUGE part of the problems of socialist systems tried in the last century.
Capitalist apologists like to point out that no "socialist" approaches actually worked in the last century. What SHOULD be pointed out is that those approaches were ACTIVELY SABOTAGED at every opportunity, overtly and covertly, BY the capitalists themselves. Why? BECAUSE CAPITALISM COULD NOT ALLOW A MORE EGALITARIAN SYSTEM TO TAKE HOLD. It would have been WAY too popular with the majority of the world's population and would have, in short order, thrown capitalism onto the dustbin of history.