RE: Nothing more hypocritical than a filthy communist
Yeah, I've been noticing a trend on this platform especially, praising communism and anarchy, shutting down any criticism of it as if out of fear that the ideology would fall to pieces if people talk about it without praising it.
Capitalism has a lot of problems. Unchecked it leads to corporate control of society, turning people into wage slaves, ruining the environment for profit, exerting control over the government and wielding legislature to make more profit at the expense of everything else. That's why it needs to be kept in check, it needs to be regulated, it needs to be tempered, by the people, for the people. Not a lot you can do to temper communism as an individual, you'll just end up digging the Danube-Black Sea channel.
Only the communist states itself can change itself for the better of its people, usually by injecting capitalism in it. But that would take the kind of foresight you don't see in die-hard ideologues that consider themselves to be right, no matter how many suffer because they're wrong.
China did manage to inject capitalism in its system, with it's special development zones, giving birth to cities like Shenzen that have become the manufacturing, technological and economical powerhouse of the world. Shenzen couldn't exist under communism, it couldn't exist under capitalism, it's in a bizarre zone where the free market is the deciding factor in all, but without concepts like perpetual patents and endless copyright. It's based sharing ideas, sharing technology, but competing for individual profit. And it works. Well, it's worked up until now, but as China is expanding that specific legislation into other regions of the country, it'll need to keep innovating to keep up with the emerging competition. It'll be fun to see how it'll shape up un the next few decades.
Sure, I don't claim that capitalism is the be-all, end-all. And run amok it turns into corporatism, which is no different than fascism, basically. But, regardless of its faults, it's the only system that, if regulated just the right amount, will generate the best solutions. The best systems are a mix of cooperation and competition. Look around, most highly successful ventures these days are open source or something similar. But going outside tech, there's Uber, AirB&B and the like, which employ a similar model. As you mention, China is probably the best example of "communism" which exited its crisis by injecting capitalism. I still think Japan is probably the best nation there is, overall :p
And yeah, anarchism and communism will be the weirdest of allies, because they're both utopian. Even if opposed, they rely on the same thing, which is all people in society need to be the same. One relies on all people sharing everything, which is retarded, and the other relies on all people always respecting all sorts of non-aggression principles, which is again... retarded. None of those scenarios is attainable. People are different, that's why loose regulations based on individualism work best, allowing freedom of association and to form communities of like-minded individuals, while those individuals are still free to pursue their needs. It's never perfect, it never will be, but it's as close as we can get.
And of course these sorts of ideologues will want to shut down speech. Force is the only way it can spread. I don't care, I won't shut up. I might not have live long during communism, but even after it fell, I could notice its effects, I saw my parents rise back from starvation along with capitalism. Again, it's far from perfect, but it's the best we got, and I'll be damned if I won't do all in my power to prevent the red plague from attaining power ever again.