They called themselves socialistic. If they aren't who was ever? Then the big difference between capitalism and socialism would be that the first existed for real.

But basically I don't really believe in socialism or capitalism.

I rather try to think in categories like:
- centrally planned economy vs. market economy
- democracy vs. tyranny
- welfare vs. inequal
- conservative vs. liberal
- corrupt vs. transparent and lawful
- majority voting (favors two parties) vs. proportional voting (favors many parties)
- ...

For example China would be an inequal, conservative tyranny with a corruption problem and an interesting mixture of central planning and market economy. Denmark would be a conservative, lawful, welfare democracy. Italy might be a corrupt, inequal, multi-party democracy with a slight tendency to be conservative. ...

This way one is not stuck all the time to decide between capitalism and socialism when for example China kind of proves that you can even combine both in one country (at least officially). China - the capitalistic, socialistic market economy people's republic. Sounds crazy but neverteless exists.

i did not post "You're proving my argument." you're quoting the wrong person.

as for using empty chinese GLASS towers for nuclear war... what the flying russian times are you smoking?!? i'm quite convinced you're a troll now. have fun "arguing" with the monkey guy.

not sure if you are serious or just trolling? Everybody without a job just creates his own business?
gee, I wonder why nobody has thought of that solution to the unemployment problem ...

Probably every country had big scale hunger.
Early 30th - is a time of Great Depression, millions of people were jobless and malnourished.
Fast googling "country" hunger 1933:

German chancellor Heinrich Brüning (30 March 1930 – 30 May 1932) got a nickname "The Hunger Chancellor"
http://historicalpassages.blogspot.ru/2011/04/1929-1933-four-fateful-years-1.html
Britain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger_marches
France http://www.britishpathe.com/video/la-marche-des-chomeurs-aka-hunger-march-to-paris/query/France
Spain https://translate.google.ru/translate?hl=ru&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.historiacocina.com%2Fpaises%2Farticulos%2Fhambre1900.htm
UShttp://depts.washington.edu/depress/hunger_marches.shtml

Yes, USSR had more deaths.
Reasons:
After communists took power Russia was swarmed from every direction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_intervention_in_the_Russian_Civil_War this attack ended in 1920
Poland attacked Russia and annexed some land
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Soviet_War ended in 1921
China in 1929
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Soviet_conflict_%281929%29

People, which were intended to work on fields served in army, living from eating stored food.
There were crop failures in 1932 and 1934, and you get the idea.
Low production, stocked food eaten, embargo against USSR, so it couldn't purchase food elsewhere.
Looks like it isn't fault of policies, just an antisoviet propaganda.

I figured it out. You work here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html

Probably because government regulations and crap make it increasingly hard to actually open and run a business. Hard to sell lemonade at a stand when the government wants $5,000,000.00 in fees just to start it lul.

Not that many would have to start businesses to give the others jobs yo.

I like chocolate milk.

And you work here?
https://meduza.io/en/news/2015/02/23/ukraine-is-now-recruiting-an-iarmy

Look, saying that "aarghblargh evil commies wanted to kill themselves" looks stupid if you think about it at least a minute.
"-Hey, father, Stalin said that we shouldn't produce food!
-Hooray, glory to Stalin!"
Considering that Stalin during WW2 faced a choice of exchanging genius German commander Paulus for his son and he chose interests of the country over his own family, I simply don't believe that Stalin systematically worked on damaging Russia.
Yes, his methods were brutal but I'm pretty damn fine with the fact that I'm alive (My grandparents weren't killed by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalplan_Ost ) and I'm not running from drone strikes(like Serbs) thanks to nuclear weapon, also result of Stalin's intuition.

You don't believe it? If you aren't a troll, I think you may have fallen victim to this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin's_cult_of_personality

Maybe when he was talking about creating your own business, he was talking about this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb-B1pQKef4
Yeah, with such a business, I'm sure with enough hard work, you can make enough money to avoid a life of extreme poverty. NOT.

Capitalism is a religion. It is the worship of money and greed.
Yeah, if only there was nobody to get in the way of me selling lemonade. Who needs a job when you can make $2 to $5 a day resulting in a profit of around $100 a month because lemonade doesn't come out of your ass. https://youtu.be/B5NuuJQT8ZM?t=35s That scene from Eurotrip doesn't apply to most parts of the world. And for those of you who could easily live off $100 a month, keep in mind, I'm talking about around $100 in the USA where the rent for one bedroom is $500 to $600 a month.

Meh.
"Millions of killed by Stalin personally" is a mem in Russia, easiest way to play a game "spot the demshizoid" (schizophren-democrats, the ones, which have wet dreams about things like "Leadership of Nemtsov")
http://i.imgur.com/QLvFFNe.png - amount of sentences, declassified paper which was used by Khrushchev to do his report.
Considering amount of traitors, spies, marauders, nazists, rapists, people, suffering from untreated PTSD, caused by 30 years of semi-permanent wars, these number aren't far off from reasonable.

"Corn chatterbox" Khrushchev later proved himself as incompetent fuck, whose inadequate decisions still echoing. Maybe he badmouthed Stalin to look better? :)

Nah

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