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Naomi,Between TV and first hand observations like yours, I have a pretty good idea of life under totalitarian communism, and no, I wouldnt like it.
But Marx was able to diagnose the problems with capitalism even if his solutions left much to be desired.
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is an attempt to encapsulate in a single narrative, the problems and sufferings under capitalism.
If you fully understand capitalism, then besides hailing its successes, you must also recognise its failures, and the suffering it causes.
You appear to fully understand the former, and not understanding of ignoring the latter.
Too often on here, the comfortably off lecture us from their ivory towers, on the causes of poverty.
That will not do.