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Originally Posted by bahbahmickey
Lets forget for a moment on how legit or not legit that site is and how this may or may not be a bunch of fear-mongers and focus on this:
You think capitalism has gotten out of control and your reasoning is because some people believe we are just as close to doomsday 5 months ago as we were 32 & 67 years ago?
Capitalism has been out of control for a very long time.
I guess it's difficult for us to understand and more so remember the suffering capitalism has brought up the global population. Let's look at the 20th and the 21st century so far and see how this global system has fared:
2 world wars with untold numbers of deaths
the holocaust
the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
mass genocide
mass famine
perpetual economic crises
people trafficking
mass unemployment
perpetual wars in the middle east
the Vietnam war
the Khmer rouge
the CIA trained death squads in south America, Afghanistan and the middle east (AKA al Qaeda, ISIS, Daesh)
tons of other US wars
the british empire and untold oppression and death
Capitalism has brought all of these horrors to bear, and capitalism only.
What happened in Russia, North Korea, China and all the other so called 'Marxist' states was pure capitalism. The difference with eastern capitalism: the state has a monopoly.
To show this simply read Marx's fundamental principle of the socialist revolution - that the emancipation of the working class is the act of the working class. Therefore none of these states are socialist - these are states where socialism is something 'done' to the masses by a higher class, often at the end of the barrel of a gun.