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<This is my first proper post on this forum so please don't bite off my head! I'm sure this has been asked many times before>

Well I have heard plenty of people arguing for Communism, they have very influential speaches indeed.

But what sort of points make Capitalism better?
What sort of points make Communism worse?

Please make your arguments short and concise. Got any good facts for me as well?

Double post.

Quite simply, Communism doesn't work.

Capitalism works on the idea that not everyone is equal, and therefore you have to work to earn your money. This gives the majority of people ambition to become better in order to earn more money and live more comfortably as a result.

Communism uses the idea that everyone is equal, giving an equal share of the nation's wealth to the exceptionally gifted entrepreneurs etc as well as the homeless. While this is a nice idea, it removes any incentive to work, produce more, or create more efficient ways to work. Since you would get paid the same whatever you did, would you really work hard for it?

Not only this, but Communism gives total equality. However, how can anybody therefore run the country, since an intellectual has no more right to than an imbecile...

The best explanation can be found in George Orwell's book: "Animal Farm". Due to a lust for power, the very foundations for communism fall down in his book. Read that to understand properly the many problems of Communism.

Capitalism isn't perfect, but it works...

I'd repaste that in the active thread if I were you. :p

Yes sorry about that. I edited my other thread and then this appeared. Not sure why! Possibly something to do with all the tabs I have open and switching between browsers etc. Will send a message out to a mod now.