Wrong. Half of europe relied so much on american protection that they had barely any military spending. Germany at the forefront, we only have ammunition for like 2 days of combat. So ye, that's nonsense.

No matter which country you pick, large ones like the USA or Russia, all of them have developed into a divided oligarchy of “haves” and “have nots”. […]

The US has been democratic for a major part of their existence. There were up and downs, sure, but it was largely a democratic system. So have many other big capitalistic countries by the way.

Russia, while being capitalist, is an authoritarian system - I'm pretty sure that would've also happened if they were communist. But the oil money they got from the west probably tasted too good.

but in the end capitalism is a failed ideology that will never work on a large scale without completely surpressing the market and brutally regulating any sign of market dominance of a few corporations.

Uuuuh, did you use AI to write this? Because it makes no sense. Personally, I wouldn't mind some regulations. Not sure what your point is here.

[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

America had a mostly centrally planned economy during WWII, you couldn't even get more rations without giving your previous packaging back to be recycled.

this is part of why america became so wealthy, along with imperialism.

[–] ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I mirrored your comment, because I think it works backwards. From the way it sounds to me, you started with your conclusion/opinion and searched for proof of why it is right. Real socialism and the Soviet unions were deeply, deeply flawed systems from the start, but only because some implementations failed, due to essentially the same problems as capitalism, does not mean the idea as a whole is rubbish. If you read the communist manifesto and "the capital" from Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, you will read a brilliant critique of our modern contemporary system. There are some very fine ideas in there, and I think it's dangerous to discard another perspective because some implementations have failed. The USA are the living proof of how two radically different systems can suffer from the same problems and collapse because of them. Why is it such a culture war against some genuinely very fine points that Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels have made over a hundred years ago, which are relevant to this day?

Edit: typo. I apologise for forgetting about Friedrich Engels.