Despite generations of failed communism, it is tried over and over again. Why does reason never prevail? Because wherever there is prosperity there is the leisure to focus on the more and more minute flaws of prosperity. This is the opening for communist propaganda. It’s a classic case of focusing on the speck in capitalism’s eye and ignoring the plank in communism’s eye.
Communism needs a healthy host, a prosperous one that can support the first years of communism, preferably one where communist agents can be voted into office with messages of socialism. This is what makes a democratic republic with a capitalist system the most susceptible to communist propaganda. Socialism is the stepping stone, the softer version that cooperates with capitalism to keep the economy strong, but it is how a capitalist system transitions to communism.
The role of socialism is to engage the citizens of a successful and wealthy capitalist system. From their wealth and leisure, those who have benefited from capitalism are confronted with its failures in exaggerated form. The plight of a single person living in poverty is magnified to represent an entire class of people “left out” and “downtrodden” with the recipient of the message having no possible understanding of those terms. It seems wrong that they are wealthy and others are poor, but the rules are the same for everyone and no one can protect someone from themselves or their decisions. Socialism takes advantage of these poor decisions and the self-inflicted victims of them to institute social programs that can never succeed except for a few propaganda examples, because they cannot change human nature and that is the true cause of the disadvantaged. The purpose is to create more social programs, more government, more government employees working continually toward the ideal of communism, which is universal employment by the government that equals total control of the population.
The question never asked is: “How will communism avoid the same failures?” The truth is, they can’t and don’t intend to. It is a selling point, not an objective. But, they will control the information about those failures and they will not cease to exist, but cease to be reported. In a capitalist system, it is the free flow of information that guides decisions away from one thing and toward another and since capitalism thrives under democratic republics, the citizen is in a position either as a voter or a consumer to move governments and industries away from harmful practices and toward more beneficial and profitable practices. The lack of this information in a communist system and the inability of the person on the ground viewing the realities to have an impact on either the government or industry spells its doom.
When ultimately the wealth of the previously capitalist system is exhausted and the failure of the communist system becomes apparent, the narrative has to be controlled. It can never be allowed to spread that communism failed, so anyone who recognizes that as a fact must be isolated from the rest of society. Isolation often means imprisonment, but when the failure becomes so apparent that the narrative can no longer be controlled, the killing starts and proceed apace until either the system totally collapses and the people revolt, or the economics debilitate the ability of the troops to continue the slaughter and they rebel for lack of pay.
So, yes, capitalism causes some minor injustices and poverty as it provides amply for the remainder of not only capitalist nations, but many others with whom they do business. Where capitalism does fail is in its ability to project kindness, because it is focused on spreadsheets and stock prices, but that is exactly why it takes Christianity to make a capitalist system invulnerable. The greater that Christian principles of mercy and generosity rule the decisions of the captains of industry, the more invulnerable is the overall system. When these principles are abandoned in arrogance and self-righteousness, the greater the vulnerability to the socialist and communist propaganda.
