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So capitalism isn't the problem, then.
There is no the problem. But there are certainly a whole lot of problems that can be traced to capitalism.
Not every citizen in a capitalist system gets fed. People starve to death because to do otherwise would be to give them a government handout.
And not every citizen in communism gets fed when they want to prioritize the party or remove some undesirable minorities, so why do they get a free pass for genocide?
What are you even talking about now?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
Are you suggesting that capitalist countries have not also been responsible for genocides? Would you like me to list a few, starting with the current one going on in Israel? Although we can go as far back as the colonization and exploitation of the Americas for corporate profits. You do know the Jamestown colony was set up as a private corporate venture, right? How about the East India Company, that was started just a few years earlier?
That's not what I said at all. What I'm saying is that decrying capitalism for its crimes while pretending communism hasn't been doing the exact same thing like OP is doing is pretty disingenuous and frankly evil. Both systems are extremes that cause more harm than good and there are middle roads that work significantly better and don't have a history of torture yet.