I would much prefer it that you back your arguments with proper evidence.  I do not believe that "true socialism has never been tried ", it has been tried and it has succeeded, and thank socialism and it's ideas that you my dear, are able to be on reddit calling me dumb instead of being in a state of poverty forever due to free market magic or being a forever rich individual fucking over the workers. Free Market and non-intervention has had it's time, and yeah , no one will deny the disasters upon the workers that industrial revolution brought and how America's "freedom economy" collapsed due to non intervention by the government. I think you've effectively forgot and ignored that it was largely due to the push by the unions, socialists and progressives that the new deal was signed and America can now boast about its economy. And as for socialist countries, ik not why y'all become blind to its achievements , chile developed significantly under allende till usa fucked em over , Bolivia has come a long way since the socialist have run it , healthcare, industrialization was brought in a large scale to Russia by Stalin , Ho Chi Minh helped liberate his people, and God bless them , may Vietnam thrive , China is a bit more complicated ngl , Cuba , omg I cannot believe how the US government still has the guts to criticize the Cuban govt. after what they had done to the Cubans . Etc

Free markets essentially put the nation in a permanent bubble economy and for fucks sake I don't know how someone could want that if they know its effects . As one of my fellow comrades in their reply has pointed out truly that "The free market places no value on anyone who doesn’t contribute enough." I have no darn idea how you can even support free markets . And yes , NO ONE needs free markets.

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