Communism is evil!
In response to DaMassPhilosopher’s post about communism not being evil, I would say that it is. Like you said DaMass, every single communist society ever created, has become a dictatorship. I believe that because human beings are human beings, and have human nature, communism will never be able to exist without eventually becoming a dictatorship or cause serious damage to its citizens. There is no question that no matter where or when, Communism is doomed to fail, and once that happens, it will hurt the people of that country. So when you think about it (thinking is the key idea here), a government that fails and harms its people every single time it is created, is an evil government.This debate about communism and capitalism was the perfect segway into what I intended to talk about anyway: Ronald Reagan and how he defeated communism and thusly ending the civil war.
Reagan was a very unpopular president at the time, mainly because hippies and other crazy folk wanted a nuclear freeze, and at first sight, this sounds like a very sensible idea. But when you delve just a little bit deeper into the facts and circumstances, you find out that this would have been much less efficient and potentially very dangerous.
To understand why this would be the case, take a look at capitalism and communism. When the government of a capitalist society needs to borrow money, they can get it from the private sector. When a communist government needs to borrow money, they have to take the money from other government programs, because there is no private sector.
When Reagan increased the amount of money put into missiles and other offensive/defensive programs, it forced the Soviet Union to do the same if they wanted to keep up with America. When Reagan continued to do this, the Soviet Union focused all of its efforts on the Cold War and neglected the other parts of the government. Also, all of the money Reagan forced the communist government to put in to the Cold War efforts had to come from somewhere, and so they took it from other government programs. This caused the government to fall apart very rapidly. Some people say that Reagan was not the reason that the Soviet Union collapsed, it would collapse anyway. For one thing, that proves my first point, that communism is evil, but the real point is that Reagan forced the Soviet Union to collapse before they could nuke us. If we had stopped producing missile defense systems, do you think that, that would have changed their minds and they would have disarmed also, I don’t think so.
This and other reasons are why I think that Reagan was the best president of modern history and one of the best ever.
If you’re not with us, you’re against us
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