Anyone that actually believes in Socialism or Communism is by definition an idiot because it's proven to be a failed economic system that results in nothing but starvation and death.
No, it's much worse than that. It's not that it 'fails' every time, it's that it is an inherently evil system that destroys the freedoms and liberty of the individual by making everyone a completely identical and consequently worthless number in a system. We all become worker ants in a colony, with nothing to live for.
The problem is you could say the same thing about aspects of capitalism. Look at any mega corporation, are the employees treated like people or worthless numbers? Wal-Mart is a great example. The military also falls into that "worthless numbers" mindset as your rank and file grunts will be sacrificed when necessary as "acceptable losses" if the ratio of dead to alive is considered acceptable to complete the mission.
Evil can be present anywhere, so using that as a justification can be tricky. Would you say that the Catholic Church should be torn down because they have a pedo problem in their priesthood, or should those doing wrong be rooted out and the overarching system saved because the core aspects as told in the bible are still good? Failure is one of the few things that can be checked against any system and always shows results.
The difference is that is a choice you can make. You can choose to work at Walmart or not. You can choose to enlist or not. And ultimately even if you do work at Walmart (I guess this doesn't apply to the military), they don't control your entire life. Walmart can never choose what you can and cannot do in your free time, how you spend your money, your beliefs, etc. And they definitely don't have the power to do anything worse than fire you.
Anyone that actually believes in Socialism or Communism is by definition an idiot because it's proven to be a failed economic system that results in nothing but starvation and death.
No, it's much worse than that. It's not that it 'fails' every time, it's that it is an inherently evil system that destroys the freedoms and liberty of the individual by making everyone a completely identical and consequently worthless number in a system. We all become worker ants in a colony, with nothing to live for.
The problem is you could say the same thing about aspects of capitalism. Look at any mega corporation, are the employees treated like people or worthless numbers? Wal-Mart is a great example. The military also falls into that "worthless numbers" mindset as your rank and file grunts will be sacrificed when necessary as "acceptable losses" if the ratio of dead to alive is considered acceptable to complete the mission.
Evil can be present anywhere, so using that as a justification can be tricky. Would you say that the Catholic Church should be torn down because they have a pedo problem in their priesthood, or should those doing wrong be rooted out and the overarching system saved because the core aspects as told in the bible are still good? Failure is one of the few things that can be checked against any system and always shows results.
The difference is that is a choice you can make. You can choose to work at Walmart or not. You can choose to enlist or not. And ultimately even if you do work at Walmart (I guess this doesn't apply to the military), they don't control your entire life. Walmart can never choose what you can and cannot do in your free time, how you spend your money, your beliefs, etc. And they definitely don't have the power to do anything worse than fire you.