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I read somewhere that monarchies (before) actually hate capitalism because it threatens their class structure where the monarch can safely safeguard his throne.
Hmmm... I just realize it. At least for the Russians, communists didn't fought capitalism but monarchy. And clearly they're different structures: monarchies has a class structure that safeguards the monarch. Capitalism cuts this structure off and gives way to those who are willing to risk and work hard, meaning any people can be as rich as a monarch. Of course kings won't like this!
This is true, they did not overthrow a capitalist society in Russia.
The problem with both monarchy and socialism/communism is control over property. Only in "classical liberal" societies are rights to property (land and chattel) enforced more or less equally among classes.
In monarchic systems, there is an elite class that can own land and make claims, and lesser classes that generally can not. Even merchant trade was seen as a threat to this structure, but by the late middle ages mercantilism was too powerful to stop.
In Marxist systems, the theory is essentially for elites to hold all property and land in trust for the collective; unfortunately the net result of this is totalitarian power for a few elites. Secondary result is deplorable mismanagement, because the elites, even if they were benevolent, simply don't know enough to manage the thousands of farms, factories, and distribution points that would normally (for us) be handled by thousands of specialized people with knowledge and skills related to their jobs. This is why Lenin, as much as he hated business people, actually had to let them out of jail and put them back in business. It was that or more starvation (Lenin's policies killed a sobering number of people through starvation, just as most other Marx-inspired leaders did).
And once again, this is why we all need to get good at business and stay that way. Let's go save the world from communism folks.
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