you know how libs always say knee-jerk “communism only works on paper” despite the opposite being true? i would like to crowdsource help in writing a good retort to that, that could. hopefully plant seeds in someone’s mind.

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They talk about the failure of socialism, but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

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I heard someone say those countries are corrupt like the western corporations bribing their politicians aren’t also part of that coruption

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Another angle for that one is “What, are you saying the people in those countries have some sort of predisposition to corruption? Now what does that sound like?”

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“Is it the economic system that is out of touch? No, it is the blacks who are wrong!”

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