stray thought "communism is bad because it produced stalin and mao" is kind of a weak argument and "yeah look at all the shit generated by capitalist systems" is a fair and reasonable retort the better take is probably something like:
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i. communism seems to (and theoretically probably must) produce or at least facilitate maos and stalins ii. theres no compensatory payoff iii. capitalist systems can break but their failure mode is generally transient and less-dreadful iv. mitigating mechanisms exist, understood
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this is cogent analysis and i endorse it unironically
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