Ok, im a social democrat, im curious to hear your perspective on communism and the soviet union. Convince me, lol.

I really appreciate the Communist Manifesto criticisms of capitalism and I agree with them there, but I dont believe in the communist economic system of collectivozing every sector of the economy or the equal distribution of the means and goods of production.

@Skull-Dude well here's my stance. I believe in private ownership and the potential of the individual, but im not a complete individualist, for example some government operated companies are good along sode private ones, I also believe in universal college, healthcare, and increasing funding for other social programs. I think both individualism and collectivism have there place in the economy. I dont believe in equal distribution for work thats not equal and that private comptetion generally helps with standard of living and technological advancement.

I agree that capitalism can gain from exploitation of third world countries, but I would argue that its the private competition that provides to motivation to create something new, private companies build off their competition modifying what they've done trying to make it better. Additionally I dont think a capitalist economy is inherently imperialist. You could even argue that some countries such as the Latin American ones would've have gotten as far as they did if it werent for capitalism and western influence. Looking at other historical examples such as Korea and Germany also show the comparison of each system. And communist nations also have there fair share of exploitation. In Eastern Europe with stalin promising "free elections" to the United States when really just using salami tactics to instill soviet control and take advantage of its resources. The Soviet Union tried exploiting Afghanistan as well.