In a way: when you legalize the most common forms of corruption and gaslight people into thinking of your favorite kinds of authoritarianism as normal and necessary, suddenly you don’t officially have a problem!
That’s how the US and many other supposedly free and uncorrupted capitalist nations do it, anyway.
that’s a fair question. it seems like corruption is universal to all systems of organization and therefore not a good measure of the validity of any given system
Has capitalism operated without corruption or authoritarianism?
In a way: when you legalize the most common forms of corruption and gaslight people into thinking of your favorite kinds of authoritarianism as normal and necessary, suddenly you don’t officially have a problem!
That’s how the US and many other supposedly free and uncorrupted capitalist nations do it, anyway.
has any economic system ever operated without corruption?
that’s a fair question. it seems like corruption is universal to all systems of organization and therefore not a good measure of the validity of any given system
Relatively speaking, I’d say yes.
The communist systems I’m aware of have failed hard on these due to not having built in outlets for negative human characteristics.
Seems like your understanding of communism comes from cold war propaganda
Actually from people who lived through it in the eastern bloc… the propaganda was mostly right.