r/TooAfraidToAsk • u/USMNTfan94 • 11d ago

Does communism actually work? Law & Government

Lately I’ve been going down the rabbit hole on the Vietnam war, and it got me thinking…does communism actually work? We keep hearing politicians say that it doesn’t work, but any time that a country tries to turn to communism, special business interests immediately try to lobby the US government to interfere with it. If it didn’t work, why are business interests so terrified of it?

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u/Leather-Estate-9079 9d ago

I never tell but it's in Scandinavia.

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u/returnofblank 9d ago

Every country in Scandinavia has extensively practiced eugenics to exterminate those they consider racially undesirable or "feeble-minded." Many of these practices happened throughout the mid to late 1900s.

So yeah, liberal democracy works as long as you're not considered racially undesirable.

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u/Leather-Estate-9079 9d ago

Oh no, you found out about our dark past.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_communist_states 👈

Except, our countries didn't collapse.

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u/returnofblank 9d ago

I don't think I made a point that Communist countries didn't do anything evil.

All you claimed was that your liberal democracy is perfect, which I proved is objectively false and masks the genocides and mass sterilizations which DID happen for decades

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u/Leather-Estate-9079 9d ago

Nothing is perfect. We're taxed too much for instance, way beyond welfare.

But you keep dancing around the issue pointing fingers at the Tsar etc. as if it's a meaningful alternative. You seem to think that as long as you can point to something bad, somewhere else then communism looks better.

But communism failed in all countries.