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I’d still rather have a state that pretends to be socialist than one that upholds capitalism - an ideology that seeks to place everything and everyone under the domination of a few elites.
"Golly gee, I sure do love this state which pretends to be socialist, but upholds capitalism by placing everything and everyone under the domination of a few elites!"
How is that worse than what we currently have?
Are you... legitimately asking how Western democracies like Canada and Germany are better than the kind of systems that the PRC and USSR ran?
Things can be bad without being equally bad.
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