Yeah, Communism is really f'ed up. America's had its moments too, though. A slavery based capitalist system, which is what we used to be all about produced outrageous death tolls as well.
Are you opebo or something?
Capitalism is the only moral political-economic system.
I was talking about before the Civil War. I should have been clearer when I said "used to be."
Southern slavery was not "capitalist" by any stretch of the imagination. If anything, that system was quite feudal in origin.
You might have a better case with your statement by looking at Northern economies post-Civil War to 1900 or the English economy from about 1830-1880, though the workers there weren't "literally" slaves.
Southern slavery is what made the Industrial Revolution and the beginnings of modern capitalism possible. It was all about textiles in those days, and the cotton was rooted in slavery.
The northern economy wasn't limited to textiles though. Indeed it was a large part of the economy and the southern economy was mostly on the agricultural sect.
Sam hits it on the head, when he says that the slave system was a pre-capitalist system (that was on it's way out).
To your assertion though, I would disagree. Had the south never had slavery, they would've used different technology and means to produce (as it was turning this way-slavery would've ended by the late 1800s if left alone because it was inherently ineffecient).
