{"id":102517,"date":"2026-05-17T03:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T07:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=102517"},"modified":"2026-05-15T11:39:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T15:39:43","slug":"communism-capitalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/05\/17\/communism-capitalism\/","title":{"rendered":"“Communism > Capitalism”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once again, thanks to the auto-translation feature on the social media site formerly known as Twitter<\/em>, Brivael Le Pogam<\/a> responds to a fan of the most evil economic system yet devised by man:<\/p>\n

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“Communism > Capitalism”<\/p>\n

Brother. You’re tweeting this from an iPhone. Designed in California. Made in a Chinese factory that only exists because Deng Xiaoping realized in 1978 that Maoism mostly produced corpses and decided to do capitalism in disguise.<\/p>\n

The greatest reduction in poverty in human history (China 1980-2020) happened at the exact moment when China stopped doing communism. The greatest famine in human history (China 1958-62, 45M dead) happened at the exact moment when they started.<\/p>\n

Same country. Same people. Same territory. Two systems. One built smartphones, the other built mass graves. Pick your side.<\/p>\n

Communism’s trophy board:
\nUSSR: collapsed
\nChina: pivoted to capitalism, prospered
\nVietnam: pivoted to capitalism, prospered
\nCuba: still rationing soap in 2026
\nNorth Korea: eating tree bark
\nVenezuela: sitting on the world’s largest oil reserves, imports gasoline
\nCambodia: killed 25% of its own population<\/p>\n

Communism isn’t an ideology. It’s a hiring program for people incapable of finding a real job, dressed up as economic theory. When you can’t build, you redistribute. When redistribution fails, you hunt for saboteurs. When you run out of saboteurs, you become someone else’s saboteur.<\/p>\n

100 million dead. Zero examples that work. The most expensive LARP in human history.<\/p>\n

But please, keep tweeting “Communism > Capitalism” from your capitalist phone, on your capitalist app, funded by capitalist ads. We need the comedy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once again, thanks to the auto-translation feature on the social media site formerly known as Twitter, Brivael Le Pogam responds to a fan of the most evil economic system yet devised by man: “Communism > Capitalism” Brother. You’re tweeting this from an iPhone. Designed in California. Made in a Chinese factory that only exists because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,25,84,7,41,1119],"tags":[780,510,91,433,398],"class_list":["post-102517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-economics","category-government","category-history","category-quotations","category-russia","tag-communism","tag-cuba","tag-poverty","tag-sovietunion","tag-venezuela"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-qFv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102519,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102517\/revisions\/102519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}