Argentinian General Election, page-85

If you think communism can work for the benefit of humanity... it's difficult to find a way to respond to you.

Communism has never worked and can never work. It is fundamentally flawed in multiple ways which makes it no surprise that every single time it gets implemented there is a disaster involving human suffering.

Socialism is similar to communism in that the state takes the wealth and distributes it artificially among the people. One of the problems is that the state does not and can not create wealth, and if the people are assured to have some system of wealth redistribution, the incentive for the individual to create wealth is reduced (not to mention their ability to do so in communism). Why bother being productive when your wealth will be given to people who are not productive? The result is everyone being poor together except for the government, but with decreasing wealth and prosperity and increasing desperation and resentment towards the government the system eventually collapses from within or is destroyed by a less dysfunctional neighbour.

Capitalism is not perfect but it allows the creation of great wealth and encourages enterprise and innovation (if you're allowed to keep what you create it encourages you to create). You end up with less equality because you have people with various amounts of wealth, as opposed to communist or socialist models where people aren't creating wealth so they're all suffering, while being oppressed by a government which won't allow them to keep anything they create.

I've spent years in communist countries, I've spoken to the people in them. Put it this way, in communist countries you find no shortage of people desperate to find a way to move to capitalist countries. In capitalist countries you don't find people desperate to escape to communist countries.

It's honestly somewhat horrifying to see western people in 2023 saying communism can work for the benefit of humanity.