>>397740>-despite having more people and more land, the USA mogged the USSR during the 20th century in innovation. The USSR, much like modern China, relied on theft of intellectual property FROM the United States, in order to compete with the United States. This is blatantly flase, and what limited "theft" that occured, the US had already done in the past in it's development as well. The USSR came from a near feudal society to a massive industrial power house in but a few decades, despite being ravaged twice utterly devastating wars and having a landscape that for a good portion was incredibly difficult to exploit. Just saying "more land and more people" entirely leaves out the context of the actual land people lived on.
>communism did not eclipse capitalism in innovation during the 20th centuryDepends on which field. In many, it completely did, and it would be a lie to say differently.
>The marketplace for ideas died out in 1991 when the USSR collapsed, and China embraced capitalism.The "marketplace of ideas" never existed in the firstplace. There's no "marketplace of ideas" where the best ideas compete and the best are just selected based on merit. There is just systems, and the power or lack of such to dominate the ideological sphere.
>What more is there to say about that? Your system if government draws no new adherents, save for the adolescents who are looking for a social clique and don't fit in elsewhere. Where in the world are people clamoring for socialism, and are they doing so merely because they perceive socialism as a welfare state?This isn't an actual argument regards to socialism itself. And we can observe developments throughout the developing and imperialized of socialist struggle returning piece by piece.
>The citizens, especially young people, were absolutely fed up with communism and yearning for American culture. Whether that was wise remains a subject of debate, but it's also what occurred in China when they opened up their economy to capitalism. 1.2 million Russian/republic Jews immediately came to the United States, and built comfortable lives here.The majority absolutely did not want an end to the USSR and the socialist system it had. Bringing up pictures of McDonalds is not an argument in the face of actual statistics, and neither is a portion of Jews leaving (particularly in the context of the entirety of the USSR, which was far larger then that).
>Traditions and values last if they're not soiled and diluted. They outlast your petty economic shell game. They're the pillars on which western civilization were built upon, and they're older even than Christianity. You know nothing except your precious economic theory that Jews invented for you. Where are they now? They're all capitalists you schmuck, lmao.Where are your traditions? Completely alien to those held by those before you. "Traditions" and values do not exist in a vacuum, and you betray your own argument when you state "if they're not soiled and diluted", as if thats something you control at the end of the day. Every "tradition" you can name currently is something sperated from those of the past, of which are completely dead their own right. The only consistent tradition has been the tradition of destroying previous tradions, a practice as old as man itself. The economic theory I state is immortal though, beucae it is a living science, not a dead and rotting corpse of a "tradition" that you post-modernly wear the skin of to obscenely pleasure yourself.
>Hm, I'm sure the state doesn't jail and torture pro capitalist protestors too. Do you want cubas biggest tourist industry to remain prostitution? That's what socialist government has managed to offer as innovation bucko. The petite bourgeois casinos were replaced by women selling their bodies for food money. Again pragmatic analyses is something you ought to do more of.If it does jail those protestors, then it's absolutely proper for them to do so. I have no doubt you would do the same for communists. Cuba's biggest tourist industry isn't prostitution either, where the fuck did you pull that from? There was an issue nearly 15 years ago, but they addressed it and now it's practically impossible to find one, especially in tourist areas. And do I need to even point out all the prostitution rampant in the capitalist countries you claim to be superior? If this is your "pragmatic analysis", it's lacking.