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No. Whether or not the bourgeois works is irrelivent. Their capital "earns" them more money than they could ever make on their own.
You think that every owner of businesses earns the owners more money than they could ever make on their own? Do you think that businesses always have to be multiple people? Do you think that the ones owning businesses and providing jobs for other people are worse people than if they would not earn something for it?
You do realize that the world has become a better place, thanks to capitalism, not because of communism?
You do know that people flee from communist dictatorships, not the otherway around.
How would you motivate people to do necessary, but maybe not so pleasant jobs, in the society if not by gaining something?
I realize that I am talking with a communist and nothing I say will change that, so I guess this is meaningless.
Communism is antithetical to dictatorships. If the country has an authoritarian leader, they aren't communist.
Capitalism needlessly starves 20,000,000 people per year globally to keep their profit margins. Those authoritarian dictatorships that people flee caused 100,000,000 deaths over an entire century, according to the west, therefore capitalism is far more costly in human lives than any other econimic model.
BTW. Capitalism and communism are economic models, not government structures. Communists are democratic.
I know for a fact, that once you are "making" more than a certain amount, that you are stealing labor costs from your employees, or the employees of your investments.
Your answer is basically: "That was not real communism, but next time it will work"