How many times has this crap been drummed into your head? It has been drummed into our heads so many times that most of us accept it as established fact without needing any backing evidence. The problem with this argument is:
Capitalism, especially conservative free market capitalism, doesn’t work very well either. In fact, if you say Communism doesn’t work, you would have to say that conservative laissez faire capitalism doesn’t work either. Neither of them work. Both are failed systems.
A reasonable argument to make could be that even as horrible as conservative capitalism is, Communism works ever worse than that horrible model. I would not be averse to such an argument. Indeed, some progressive liberals argue just that.
It is a much, much harder case to make that “socialism doesn’t work.” The conservative capitalists have been screaming this forever, but the arguments in support of their theory are very poor. A good argument could be made that social liberalism or social democracy or democratic socialism works better than either conservative capitalism or Communism. One could amass quite a bit of evidence in favor of this judgment.
Who says Communism doesn’t work? Who proved that? Name the scientists who proved this scientifically. They don’t exist.
One way we could determine whether a given system works is to ask the people who live under it or have lived under it.
By that measure, Communism does not appear to be a failed system at all.
Take note:
81% of Serbs say that life was better under Tito’s socialism than it is now under Serbian capitalism. You mean the wars of the 1990′s, 40% unemployment, rampant crime and drug addiction and a collapsing infrastructure are not superior to failed Communism?
63% of Romanians say that life was better under Communism than it is today. Many stupid arguments are given at the link for why the majority of Romanians are obviously mistaken about this opinion of theirs.
72% of Hungarians say life was better under Communism than it is under capitalism.
57% of East Germans say that life was better under the GDR than it is in Eastern Germany today.
66% of Slovaks say that life was better under Communism than it is today.
66% of Armenians, 61% of Kyrgyz, and 56% of Ukrainians say that the fall of the USSR was a bad thing and only small numbers say it was a good thing.
60% of Russians said Communism is a good system that works well as opposed to a bad system that works poorly.
So you see, if we ask people who have lived under Communism whether Communism doesn’t work and capitalism does work, they don’t agree with us. Most of them say that Communism at the very least works better than capitalism.
Which is really why there are still socialists and Communists in the world today. We know how these systems measure up against capitalism very well.