Why you're wrong about communism: 7 huge misconceptions about it (and capitalism)

salon.com ^ | February 2, 2014 | Jesse Myerson

[Travis McGee]

"Most of what Americans think they know about capitalism and communism is total nonsense. Here's a clearer picture."

(Pro-communist stooges at Salon are reaching out to a new generation of idiots.)

[Travis McGee]

Communism is harder to kill than Dracula. They are always waiting to seduce another generation of historical idiots with their siren song of forced equality. But even in Salon, the comments are 90% condemnatory of communism and socialism

[newfreep]

The fruits of socialist indoctrination in our public schools.

[RoosterRedux]

All the communists I have known spit and sputter when you ask them to name one (just ONE) communist system that has ever worked.

[Repeal The 17th]

So much crap in that article...need to call a big honey wagon.

[Procyon]

All those horrible things attributed to Communists? Those weren’t the result of the real, pure Communism that our teachers are trying to teach us about. The future Communist societies will be the nice ones Karl Marx wrote about. After all, even Microsoft Windows didn’t get it right the first and second time.

[Paladin2]

Where does this guy point to all of the successful Communist Nations?

[G Larry]

Good to see the folks as Salon have exposed their COMMUNIST IDEALS.

[broken_clock]

"Let them try to convince the tens of millions of people who die of malnutrition every year because the free market is incapable of engineering a situation in which less than half of the world’s food is thrown away.

Yes, you Salon fools try and tell this to the Ukrainians.

[fruser1]

Captilism relies on freedom.

Communism takes it away.

[polymuser]

Wow! Someone has a jumbo koolaid sipper and fills it frequently. A poster boy for cognitive dissonance. How do some Americans get so lost? Or, did he just have a tough daddy he’s still trying to hurt back?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The author sets up a bunch of straw men, then knocks them down.

What a novel idea!

[b4its2late]

salon.com isn’t worth the money they pay yearly to keep the site online.

[Vermont Lt]

Well, it is great in concept. Everyone works for the benefit of the other. I sounds great.

Except in groups of more than two it doesn’t work. Because we are inheritly competitive by nature. We strive to survive. My goodness, just watch animal planet and you will see how animals are hard wired.

[Nifster]

The typical distortions and twisting to try and convince people that communism and statism are good things. This yob knows nothing about freedom and liberty.

[Moose Burger]

Thinking “is this the best you have?”... Well, this is salon, so yes, maybe this is the best they have.

[bboop]

A liberal friend told my husband, when he mentioned the millions of people who were murdered in the name of communism - “Communism has never been implemented properly.’

[Louis Foxwell]

Communism is built on child like innocence. The very idea that it is possible to amass vast power without criminals worming their way in makes as much sense as leaving a thousand carcasses to putrify and not expecting buzzards to circle. Communism is always corrupt because it depends upon people addicted to power to do the right thing when they are given absolute power. Government authority is the well spring of corruption.

[muir_redwoods]

Socialism is simply the default choice of the stupid. Only a moron unwillingly or unable to look beyond the superficial falls for the idiocy of marxist “thought”.

[celmak]

Amazing. The writer works on superfluous exaggerations as examples of what is supposedly the norm in both economic theories.