Ray Hood
Ray Hood
Aug 31, 2018 · 1 min read

A bit all over the place this analysis! I think you need to update your understanding of both what the Soviet Union was and what the U.S. is…

First, the Soviet Union was in no way “communist” A better description would be “bureaucratic state socialism”. I’m not sure that a communist society has ever truly existed.

The U.S. was not and is not pure capitalist. It is a variation on other Western economies with the government taking up more than a third of GDP. It definitely has a much more porous safety net than other Western economies.

Note that the U.S. was never a pure slave economy. Slavery dominated in the southern states but was virulently opposed by the states north of the Mason Dixon line. The question of which was a more productive system was settled when the industrialized North forced the slaveholding South to unconditional surrender.

Slavery was the “original sin” of the United States which has taken 200+ years to remedy and we’re still not done.

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