1. And is that how it ever, ever, ever worked out in any off all the communit countries in the last 100 years?
Yah, I guess attempting to make iron on your crop fields for The People (aka the Communist Party and Government and Friends) would further your own interests. Then your mass-grave can be sealed with grossly imperfected iron, instead of dirt.
At least you can be executed in style and comfort!
2. HERETIC! HERETIC ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!!!
You're a fan of sensationalism aren't you, PatriotSaint?
So the current prison population in the U.S. is the largest of any nation in the history of the world, mostly because of a for-profit prison system that lobbies for overly strict laws that get people locked up for stupid reasons. A large number of these people at any given time are held in solitary confinement. This is a treatment that is considered to be torture by most of the developed world, on the observation that it has been found to cause permanent psychological damage within two weeks almost 100% of the time. A large portion of prison inmates will at some point find themselves in solitary confinement, some of them for years. The U.S. prison system is known to be a pretty horrible place to be, motivating criminals, even petty ones, to go to dangerous lengths to avoid it. In response, the police are continually advised and granted greater leeway to conduct their job with an extreme degree of paranoia and violent force. As a result, the police severely injure or kill in usually completely uncalled for fashion innocent people or petty suspects every single day. And the vast majority of victims are poor, as it's pretty widely observed that the poor's rights simply aren't respected very much, if at all.
Not regular political executions, but it's not exactly a flattering set of circumstances, either. All driven by capitalist motivations. And that's not even going into how capitalist exploitation of vulnerable populations on an international scale has also resulted in hundreds of millions of deaths. Or if you want to talk about people being killed for political persecution, how about the terrorism instigated by the U.S. in South America to prevent the spread of socialism, where such was occurring in a peaceful and legitimate fashion completely unrelated to the oppression in the Soviet Union. Millions murdered there in the name of capitalism.
I don't think claiming moral high ground is the way you should go about promoting your ideology.
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