Growing up it was definitely more frowned upon in the 1990s to be a communist than it is today. I always thought that why wouldn't we as Americans instead of denying an entire world view.. look for the positive qualities of a system which demonstrated some ability and buy in among people world wide for a reason. Like why do we have to take two old political and economic systems which are now hundreds of years old and set them in a death match. I never understood why couldn't we just take what works or from each or the beneficial aspects of each system and fix what doesn't work and come up with a merging of them? Like Capitalism allows for some more personal autonomy and initiative and creativity it would seem than communism, but not necessarily so with the example of poverty debt inequality. Communism calls for collective will and planning for general good or is supposed to. I have no direct knowledge of China but they brought an enourmous amount of people out of poverty using capitalism but ruled by a communist political party. Abuses of each system should be acknowledged by people world wide and rectified as we move into the 21st century.
Thats the way my mind works when i am confronted with the conflict between human fallible systems and histories. I think others are going that way too. Hopefully we don't get the secretive abuses instead of correct human directions from each.
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