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I wonder why the bad things the US does internationally never get blamed on capitalism, yet when people write or vent about China it's always about these darn Communists. Are these after-effects of the red scare?

China is an authoritarian dictatorship with their own flavour of communism I guess. Blaming everything they do on commmunism as a whole is very uninformed.

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I believe this has to do with any system where the government has too much control. Communism appears to me like a system that promotes the government’s freedoms over an individual.

Have there ever been peaceful communists who ran a country?

Add that to the tankies I've met personally and their beliefs, and yeah, communism sucks.

How many times has Cuba invaded the U.S.?

Being too busy repressing their own people to invade anyone is hardly an achievement indicative of peace.

Have there ever been peaceful capitalists who ran a country?

Don't get me wrong, I can't really stand uber-authoritarian Communism. But I don't see how communist/marxist theory is bad as a whole. Would certainly help erase a lot of issues we have on our earth. Unfortunately, people at the top always start to misuse their power to stay there. But that's also the case in capitalist America, so then again, why is communism such a problem for many americans?

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