Communism in general is far worse than capitalism

Then i am right in saying that socialism and communism lead to war violence and death, the very process of enacting communism or socialism according to my opponent must be done through radical instant revolution. Revolution in which war and violence must occur. Socialism and communism therefore require that many people be murdered before they can be enacted. In any civilized society murder is always seen as a bad thing, but those who wish for socialism and communism must have to see murder and death as a good thing when it is being committed in the name of their political system! As for the taking and forcing of communism on the nations of eastern Europe by the soviet union, my opponent claims that once a nation is taken by force, they no longer have any independence. In WW2 in western Europe the nations there were instead liberated by american and British forces. In western Europe capitalism was adopted was once more as it had before the war, and as such recovery from the war was much faster in capitalist western Europe. Funnily enough my opponent claims that capitalism encourages imperialism, slavery and exploitation. Firstly imperialism defined here - A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force. (google). This involves a nation expanding its influence. Imperialism is a nation or country expanding, not private companies. In a true capitalist society, there would be no government ownership over means of production. This would then mean that when the government wanted to invade another country it would have to purchase weapons and equipment from private companies, meaning that the government would have to pay large sums of money to continue imperialism. Instead modern capitalist nations find it far cheaper to simply engage in diplomatic talks with other nations to transfer materials etc. However in a communist society where trade should not exist, a government would need to have ownership of natural resources in order to use them. The government in a communist or socialist country would also be able to pay far less for war since they own all the means of production. Put 2 and 2 together, since communist nations can not trade, they must have ownership over the land which has the natural resources. They can much easier afford to go to war, and often they did. Early imperialism from 1800's to 1919, was permitted entirely by European governments who owned many factories and other means of production that made equipment for their wars. Private companies did make money off the imperialism, but the imperialism would have continued regardless of whether private companies were profiting from it or not. As for slavery, i find this funny google defines a slave as "A person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them". In a socialist and communist state, everyone belongs to and is the property of the state, they are also forced to obey the state, as well as work for it. In a socialist or communist state, no one has the option of not working for the state, people receive the same amount of income regardless of how hard they work or how productive they are. I would call the people in a socialist or communist state slaves. Lastly you say capitalism causes exploitation, and yet the definition of exploitation "Utilization of another person or group for selfish purposes". http://www.thefreedictionary.com..., is true in a socialist state, government officials use and utilize the free work they can derive from the masses to achieve their own governments goals, regardless of whether the people want them or not. Now for your statement that "wealth in the world is a constant" i must say that you are absolutely completely wrong. The global GDP, which is general domestic product has been increasing throughout the past few hundred years. In 1960 the world GDP was 1.3 trillion dollars in today's money, the population then was 3 billion people on the planet. In 2010 the world population was nearly 7 billion people and the world GDP was 63 trillion dollars in today's money. That means that global GDP in 2010 was 48 times higher than it was in 1960. http://data.worldbank.org... The reason for this monumental increase in growth?, well it comes to many things, firstly and most importantly the making of easy global trade and fast communication in which investors could use to make wiser and safer investments. The invention of many new technologies also helped, more efficient ways of mining, exploring for oil, many new vaccines and many new trading deals. Also much more resources have been discovered, as well as much better farming technology. China becoming slightly free market has also helped, as well as the collapse of most communist nations. The rise on the graph is steepest just after the fall of communism when many new workers came to the west looking for better lives. The divides in social classes become worst when there is no free trade. In the soviet union especially the vast majority of people lived and were part of the working class, whereas there were a few party officials who were rich, and powerful. China which is just starting to try capitalism currently has one of the fastest growing middle classes in the world. Many people who were previously in the working class have opened up their own businesses, or found better jobs in the booming economy. The thing with capitalism is that when things are done, they have to be agreed upon by both parties. If a tradesmen is asked to fix something in a house, his employer must agree to pay him to fix it, and he must agree to fix it for an amount of money he deems fair. In capitalism things can only be done when they are mutually beneficial for both parties involved, if they are not beneficial for both parties, then it is unlikely that both parties will participate. A perfect world is a very subjective term, you see a perfect world as one in which all people work together for mutual gain, i see a perfect world as a world in which all are free to follow their dreams and achieve their desires. A perfect world nor a perfect system can ever be achieved because people are not perfect, if we were perfect everything would be perfect anyway. By removing social classes, many problems are created, firstly the middle classes are typically known to be the largest consumer class, due to its size and moderate wealth this class often buys most accessories. They pay their money to the Upper class, which typically own many of the means of production, factories, docks etc. And they pay the working class to produce their products. Of course in many free capitalist nations there are is a huge amount of class mobility, allowing people in the different classes to change to different classes. In a communist or socialist society, this whole order of things is completely destroyed. Government instead tries to play all three roles. This is a near impossible task, even if a socialist or communist government was to be given an army of well meaning eager slaves ready to do their masters bidding. The government would have to keep track of what all of them need, as well as what they want, as well as how much each individual in them can work. A task that is almost impossible for one organisation to achieve. The people who own large monopolies actually do give back to the society they take the money from. Unless of course they get all the money the make and stash it under their beds where it will never be spent. Rich people spend huge amounts of money, the money the spend has to go somewhere, it can only go back into the economy. John D Rockefeller was the first person to innovate the way in which oil was transported. He found a much cheaper more efficient way to do it, and was rewarded by the market for doing so. Would he have still invested so much in energy saving pipelines if he hadn't been working for profit?