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In Re: Iconic Photo.

American capitalism has produced John D. Rockefeller, Henry Clay Frick, and J.P. Morgan.

Communism has produced Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot.

Any questions on who wins the Body Count and Human Misery Olympics?

Posted by Mikey NTH at February 16, 2010 2:57 PM

Don't forget Carnegie.

Posted by B. Durbin at February 16, 2010 3:26 PM

I don't forget Carnegie - or any others. I was just saying 'here are three, and here are three'

And if anyone wants to line up capitalists from 1860 to now, and Communists from 1860 to now, and look at the Body Count and Human Misery produced - the Communists still win the gold.

The capitalists just wanted money; the Communists just wanted that - and everything else in human society and life. Totalitarian.

Capitalism is just an economic system. Communism is a total governmental/economic/social system. The two are not the same. Not. The. Same.

Posted by Mikey NTH at February 16, 2010 7:08 PM

I just meant that Carnegie is the classic example of a good capitalist— he made his, and used it to fund libraries and the arts.

Contrast that with those folk who fund death instead.

"The root of sin is when people start to think of other people as things."

Posted by B. Durbin at February 17, 2010 12:57 PM

Contrast that with those folk who fund death instead. I just meant that Carnegie is the classic example of a good capitalist— he made his, and used it to fund libraries and the arts. "The root of sin is when people start to think of other people as things."

Posted by JordanBoland at January 26, 2013 12:08 AM