Yeah, you really don’t know history. Let’s do some basics.
Russia had a famine every 4 years for over a century while the West was industrializing. The rich didn’t care that famines killed entire families because they owned all the output and could keep themselves safe. By the time the revolution hit, the West was far more stable than Russia was and famines were things of the past. Then the revolution came and the owning class was abolished. Rapid industrialization commenced, the fastest industrialization the world had ever seen. Food security followed the mechanization of farms thanks to central planning. But within a couple years capitalists decided that the USSR posed an existential threat - if they inspired more workers’ revolutions, the gravy train would end for them. So fascism began to emerge in the West. Corporations in every country supported the development of fascism in Europe. Fascist rallies were held at Madison Square Garden. And then Hitler came to power after writing a book detailing his vision for invading Russia, enslaving the Slavic peoples, and using the USA’s highly advanced systems of slavery, apartheid, and reservations to do it. And he explicitly stated that it was the workers’ state that needed to go. So he fielded the world’s most advanced military at the time, supported by the combined industrial might of the West. And the USSR, society that was just coming out of their 4-year famine cycle and had just managed to industrialize it’s farms, had to defend itself against this advanced military threat using technology never before seen, using tactics never before seen, and without any industrial allies supporting them. And the USSR did it. They industrialized to produce a war machine that not only defended against 80% of the Nazi forces but allowed them to push out all the way to Berlin and capture Berlin before the “Allies” could even deal with 20% of the Nazi forces. During that time, famine returned to USSR, because they had not been allowed to develop themselves in peacetime. Why? Because capitalism decided they would not allow it and would rather launch a world war than let workers abolish ownership.
But then we have China, a story in many ways far worse than the story I just told. China had not developed industrial technology by the time Europe had, and that head start for Europe factors in greatly here. Capitalists in Europe wanted the wealth of China, but it turns out that they could produce nothing that China wanted - China produced better ceramics, textiles, foodstuffs, and many other trade goods. China only traded mostly in silver, and that meant capitalists needed silver to buy things from China, like tea. The capitalists invaded “the Americas” and found huge deposits of silver, so they inenslaved the indigenous population and forced them to mine silver to feed their trade with China. But after scouring the globe, enslaving millions on every continent, and dominating entire nations, they hit upon something that worked. Opium. The capitalists sold opium to China, and did so well that by some estimates 2/3s of the Chinese population had become addicted. It got so bad that the flow of silver reversed entirely and the European capitalists were suddenly booming because they were drug dealers of the most addictive substances of the era. China decided that this was bad for their country, so they banned opium. So the Europeans bombarded them with their ironclads, destroyed cities, and sacked the capital, forcing the government to reverse the ban on opium at gun point. Not only that, but they also got full immunity from Chinese law in the 5 major port cities, Britain owned Hong Kong, and administration of trade tarrifs was handed over to the Europeans who starved China of tarrifs revenue. This was the century of humiliation. Then WW2 happened. The People’s Liberation Army spent a long time trying to gain control of China and force out the Japanese and ultimately the Europeans. By the time it was all over, the PLA had proven they were ideologically superior by recruiting thousands of enemy soldiers to their side. Some battalions of the PLA had a casualty rate higher than 100% and fought to the end of the war because they were consistently replacing their fallen soldiers with KMT soldiers who saw the truth of the conflict. By the time the PLA won, China was now over 100 years behind Europe in development, their wealth had been extracted by Europe, and they were still experiencing famines literally every 2 years. Chinese people were the poorest in the world. And in 75 years of communist party control, they executed the fastest ever industrialization, they raised so many people out of poverty they account for 80% of all poverty alleviation in the world, their people have a purchasing power parity that now exceeds the richest capitalist country in the world, they produce the greatest quantity of advanced academic research in hi-tech fields, they are brokering peace deals among decades-long enemies that capitalism has stoked for its own benefit, and they are building alternative systems that allow the rest of the world to finally break free of the abusive shackles of the capitalist West. In 75 years.
No. Capitalism is not the best system we have ever seen. We have seen better systems. The fact that communism is a better system was also recognized by capitalism, which is why they are willing to launch devastating wars - they know they can’t win without mass murder, genocide, environmental devastation, and carpet bombing the production of other nations.
Yeah, you really don’t know history. Let’s do some basics.
Russia had a famine every 4 years for over a century while the West was industrializing. The rich didn’t care that famines killed entire families because they owned all the output and could keep themselves safe. By the time the revolution hit, the West was far more stable than Russia was and famines were things of the past. Then the revolution came and the owning class was abolished. Rapid industrialization commenced, the fastest industrialization the world had ever seen. Food security followed the mechanization of farms thanks to central planning. But within a couple years capitalists decided that the USSR posed an existential threat - if they inspired more workers’ revolutions, the gravy train would end for them. So fascism began to emerge in the West. Corporations in every country supported the development of fascism in Europe. Fascist rallies were held at Madison Square Garden. And then Hitler came to power after writing a book detailing his vision for invading Russia, enslaving the Slavic peoples, and using the USA’s highly advanced systems of slavery, apartheid, and reservations to do it. And he explicitly stated that it was the workers’ state that needed to go. So he fielded the world’s most advanced military at the time, supported by the combined industrial might of the West. And the USSR, society that was just coming out of their 4-year famine cycle and had just managed to industrialize it’s farms, had to defend itself against this advanced military threat using technology never before seen, using tactics never before seen, and without any industrial allies supporting them. And the USSR did it. They industrialized to produce a war machine that not only defended against 80% of the Nazi forces but allowed them to push out all the way to Berlin and capture Berlin before the “Allies” could even deal with 20% of the Nazi forces. During that time, famine returned to USSR, because they had not been allowed to develop themselves in peacetime. Why? Because capitalism decided they would not allow it and would rather launch a world war than let workers abolish ownership.
But then we have China, a story in many ways far worse than the story I just told. China had not developed industrial technology by the time Europe had, and that head start for Europe factors in greatly here. Capitalists in Europe wanted the wealth of China, but it turns out that they could produce nothing that China wanted - China produced better ceramics, textiles, foodstuffs, and many other trade goods. China only traded mostly in silver, and that meant capitalists needed silver to buy things from China, like tea. The capitalists invaded “the Americas” and found huge deposits of silver, so they inenslaved the indigenous population and forced them to mine silver to feed their trade with China. But after scouring the globe, enslaving millions on every continent, and dominating entire nations, they hit upon something that worked. Opium. The capitalists sold opium to China, and did so well that by some estimates 2/3s of the Chinese population had become addicted. It got so bad that the flow of silver reversed entirely and the European capitalists were suddenly booming because they were drug dealers of the most addictive substances of the era. China decided that this was bad for their country, so they banned opium. So the Europeans bombarded them with their ironclads, destroyed cities, and sacked the capital, forcing the government to reverse the ban on opium at gun point. Not only that, but they also got full immunity from Chinese law in the 5 major port cities, Britain owned Hong Kong, and administration of trade tarrifs was handed over to the Europeans who starved China of tarrifs revenue. This was the century of humiliation. Then WW2 happened. The People’s Liberation Army spent a long time trying to gain control of China and force out the Japanese and ultimately the Europeans. By the time it was all over, the PLA had proven they were ideologically superior by recruiting thousands of enemy soldiers to their side. Some battalions of the PLA had a casualty rate higher than 100% and fought to the end of the war because they were consistently replacing their fallen soldiers with KMT soldiers who saw the truth of the conflict. By the time the PLA won, China was now over 100 years behind Europe in development, their wealth had been extracted by Europe, and they were still experiencing famines literally every 2 years. Chinese people were the poorest in the world. And in 75 years of communist party control, they executed the fastest ever industrialization, they raised so many people out of poverty they account for 80% of all poverty alleviation in the world, their people have a purchasing power parity that now exceeds the richest capitalist country in the world, they produce the greatest quantity of advanced academic research in hi-tech fields, they are brokering peace deals among decades-long enemies that capitalism has stoked for its own benefit, and they are building alternative systems that allow the rest of the world to finally break free of the abusive shackles of the capitalist West. In 75 years.
No. Capitalism is not the best system we have ever seen. We have seen better systems. The fact that communism is a better system was also recognized by capitalism, which is why they are willing to launch devastating wars - they know they can’t win without mass murder, genocide, environmental devastation, and carpet bombing the production of other nations.