If someone tells you that communism has led to famines in the USSR and China, that it doesn't have any incentives and that anyone who supports it use products of capitalism, how do you counter this?

DylanMc6 [any, any]@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 hours ago

If someone tells you that communism has led to famines in the USSR and China, that it doesn't have any incentives and that anyone who supports it use products of capitalism, how do you counter this?

frankPodmore@slrpnk.net · 7 hours ago

Even if you use open source software exclusively, the hardware you run it on was still manufactured under capitalism, the hardware it was built on was manufactured under capitalism, the electricity you’re powering your hardware with was provided by capitalism, and the very economic system that allowed the devs to build and maintain the software… was capitalism.

None of this is in capitalism’s favour. That there’s no getting away from it is, for Marxists, a key argument against it.