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Do you think there are never any human labour abuses under communist regimes?
Communism as a system is structured to reduce exploitation of workers by eliminating the profit motive and instead produce on a centrally planned basis to meet everyone's needs.
Capitalism as a system is structured to exploit the maximum amount of labor to generate high profits for the capitalist class.
Both systems will have instances of exploitation of labor. The difference is one of them is structured around increasing it, the other decreasing it to the point of abolishing it entirely. Judging socialist projects because of cases of exploitation of labor, in their nascent stages, is like criticizing capitalism in the aftermath of the French Revolution because there were still parts of France that maintained similar conditions to Feudalism for some years.
I could argue that we're still in the nascent stages of capitalism. Claiming "nascent stages" is like claiming "but that wasn't real communism. If we did this this way it would be better."
You might’ve read what he wrote but you didn’t quite understand it.
Oh man, you got me, I am a communist now.