“Democracy sustains capitalism. Capitalism thrives in a democracy. And, right now, we are dealing with, as I called him at my speech on the Ellipse, a tyrant,” she said, referencing her rally last year on the White House Ellipse in Washington. “We used to compare the strength of our democracy to communist dictators. That’s what we’re dealing with right now in Donald Trump. And these titans of industry are not speaking up,”

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    Unregulated capitalism CAN lead to fascism.

    It doesn’t have to.

    Just like communism all around the world has similarly basically always led to fascism and dictatorship, but it doesn’t have to.

    Humans are always the problem. Plans don’t meet humans well.

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      Just like communism all around the world has similarly basically always led to fascism and dictatorshipv

      It hasn’t “led” to anything; Marxist-Leninism is explicitly authoritarian. That said, it’s not fascism, that is not what that word means.

      Unregulated capitalism CAN lead to fascism.

      We’re on our second run of capitalism leading to fascism across the Western world in the exact same way along the exact same fault lines.

      Plans don’t meet humans well.

      An economic system isn’t a plan; it’s the context within which economic activity (including said plans) take place.

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      And capitalism has killed millions more than the other ideologies too, even more than theocracies, all because people can’t afford food and medicine

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        No I don’t think your AND should be added to what I’m saying. You can say that elsewhere as it’s own standalone. Ty.