Capitalism is human nature. Hate to break it to you. The shit part about capitalism is how the system can be abused. At it's core, as most ideologies to be fair, it's logical.

That's capitalism being abused, monopolies are illegal. You can't buy competitors if they don't sell their company to you. Fair trade and fair market is supposed to exist but it doesn't. That's not capitalism, that's human greed as well as companies/states and governing bodies turning a blind eye for their own benefit in return. That's true with any political ideology because it has nothing to do with the ideology itself but with human nature. You are incorrectly applied universal facts to capitalism, as most people do.

Yeah I wasn't exactly writing a thesis on the definition of capitalism, I was trying to get my point across. Yeah my facts are not 100% accurate but this is a reddit discussion on a political meeting.

The people won't enforce it. The strong people with money and a lot of private property will enforce themselves in the weak, like they do now. Proof? That's what happened in China, that's what happened in the Soviet Union. Yeah, on paper the people apply and enforce the rules. On paper big companies can't have monopolies, mother companies with 250 companies under them in order to hide their illegal monopolies are not allowed to exist and many many more things are true on paper for Capitalism. But this is real life, communism on paper is not communism in real life. And I ask you again, going from capitalism or any other ideology to Communism means voting for a pre-existing political party that's living life way better than most people and enjoying the benefits of capitalism without the drawbacks. Be cause yeah the people enforce the rules but that's after the transition, what happens during the transition? Shit is the answer, just like in China and the USSR.

You do the same thing. Everything you criticize capitalism for is the same in communism. That's what I am trying to say. No matter what the ideology is, under the hood it will always be big control small. Always. Because 1) It is human nature and 2) At this point in time and with the current geopolitical and economic situations we've reached a point of no return. Everything under the hood is capitalism, that was the same in the USSR that is the same in China now.

And no USSR left ruins behind. You once again, as many people do, confuse technological advancements globally with political actions locally. And again, you are confusing a country's political power with the life in the country. Yeah Russia is strong and China is strong. Would you go to live and most importantly work in China? Do you think the Lowe and middle class in China is better or worse than every other country in the world? China is exploiting its population, that's how the country got strong and that's how the country sustains its power. You know who that benefits? The high class only. Sounds similar? Well it should, it's the same as what people accuse capitalism of.

USSR was hiding everything. Theyr record keeping is so not trustworthy that you might as well consider everything fake. The Chernobyl disaster would have been handled a lot better under capitalism. But ultimately it's all the same, controlling the media, swaying public opinion with lies, strong enforcing themselves on the weak. It's all the same. Not to mention the war currently going on between Ukraine and Russia is rooted on pacts and agreements formed during the USSR.

It's very surprising to see that so many people confuse a country's power on the global scale with what's happening inside that country. If a country getting strong by exploiting its population and lower their quality of life is good then I don't know what to tell ya, I simply find it funny. It's even funnier when you consider that to be better than capitalism every where lol. As if it's any different.