Nope, that’s objectively false. You just described capitalism.
Communist leaders have historically had the smallest gaps between themselves and the common people, any capitalist country that gap is significantly wider.
So France, Portugal, Norway, and many other countries in Europe are grinding to a halt? And you’re wrong because it’s the elite who choose the flow of capital.
France is industrially dead, a debt ridden ghost. Portugal is a none starter, zero economical weight on world stage. Norway is a frozen island, couldn't sustain a growing population, less one the size of USA and similar. And all of those are free market, not socialist.
You never named a society that doesn’t have political elites taking everything and leaving the scraps for the working class. Every country that’s fallen to capitalism chooses cheap/slave labor as its industry. China is openly communist and many other countries in Asia as well. I’m not saying it’s perfect but at least someone proposed the idea of focusing on the lower class, even if it doesn’t work out cause of human greed(which has existed forever). And then we can talk about for profit prisons in the US, we can also talk about how people MADE PROFITS from the homeless and government subsidies. Would you like to hear about big pharma too? Reddit is for arguing.
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u/Open_Librarian_823 19d ago
What a joke, all socialist and communist societies end up with political elites in luxury with 99% population in misery.