Communism will beat Capitalism

While Capitalism isn't a perfect system (no system truly is), it most certainly isn't oppressive. Every transaction that takes place is a voluntary one. Nobody is forced to do anything by any form of coercion whatsoever. Furthermore, my opponent claims that "hundreds and millions of people are deprived and hungry," and yet provided no evidence to support this claim. Which first world, Capitalistic society has "millions" that are hungry? Is it all of the Capitalist systems combined, or a few select countries? Not only is my opponent using dubious terms as a basis for his accusations, but he provides no clear statistical evidence to support his claim. My opponent flat out admits in his second contention that economic prosperity IS, in fact, the end result, but then makes his unfounded assertion that millions are of people are somehow struggling. Allow me to retort. According to the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Educational Statistics, students are graduating from College never before seen in human history. Furthermore, the U.S. is the number one leader in GDP, according to current consumer reports. Also, there is approximately 14.5 percent of Americans, according to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, that live below the poverty line, and merely 4.5 percent of the 14.5 live in abject poverty. Granted, any form of poverty is too much, but poverty has been on a decline, and this number PALES in comparison to any other communist country in existence today (no communist country is even 1st first world). If you compare that with communist countries, you will see they are far worse off, bar none. In Cuba, it's an epidemic crisis of people dying from starvation. In fact, the U.S. military reports of citizens trying to break into Guantanamo Bay (America's prison for terrorists) to have 3 full meals and a roof over their heads. In North Korea, every one of their citizens that isn't linked to officials live in abject poverty and/or slavery. In fact, poverty is so bad, some places in NK sell their own feces for food. In China, and under the communist rule of Mao, 85 percent of individuals lived in abject poverty. When the government opened up to a free enterprise system, however, they have pulled 500 million of its own people out of poverty. Thus, and to the contrary, incorporating a free enterprise system helps more people than it hurts, unlike a communist system, where everyone is poor. Granted, there will always be a poor class in every economic system, however the free enterprise system raises more out of poverty and into success than Communism ever will. The fact of the matter is, people have DIED of starvation in GREATER NUMBERS under COMMUNIST RULE than they have in any capitalistic systems combined. My evidence stands to this contention from my previous argument from last round. In the second half of his argument, my opponent doesn't take any criticism that his communist system is heavily flawed, and blames the deaths of millions on "corrupted officials." What my opponent fails to realize is that it was the communist system ITSELF that allowed for it to happen in the first place. Kim Il Sung, Mao, Pol Pot, Stalin, and Castro were able to murder so many people in the name of "progress" given the fact that the power of the state was allocated to them to use as they saw fit. This isn't something unusual in any communist country. The state uses force in order to do what it wants, thus, these tyrants did exactly what every communist system allows for people like them to do: murder innocents. Therefore, calling every single major communist leader in the past as crazy people completely dismisses the obvious fact that it's the communist system itself that warranted this type of oppression. Even if I gave my opponent the benefit of the doubt that each communist ruler was coincidentally "crazy," there is no checks or balances put in any one of these systems that would prevent it from happening. Why? When you have massive centralized state power, you can't control for good or bad leaders. Yeah, Wal Mart pays its employees a pathetic sum, but Wal Mart isn't going to put a gun to your head and force you to work there against your will, and imprison your family if you decide to flee your oppressive government. In his last argument, my opponent asserts that Capitalism is starting to fail and points to the U.S.'s debt as some indicator that this is going to happen. According to Focus Economics, the U.S. is in great standing with a rise in GDP and an 8 percent hike in consumer confidence. In fact, Economists think the exact opposite is happen than what my opponent thinks will happen: http://www.focus-economics.com... Second of all, debt isn't merely exclusive to a capitalist system. Granted, I don't like Crony Capitalism and I do think our Government overstepped its role when it colluded with big industry banks, however this isn't indicative of any collapse. Every prediction of the past of an economic collapse has been false, and furthermore, there is no further evidence that in the unlikely event of an economic collapse, capitalism will be replaced with communism. Just because some workers somewhere in Capitalist societies are unhappy doesn't mean they are communists wanting change. This stands to reason because: 1. No failed Capitalist country switched to Communism. 2. No economically flourishing Communist country ever existed. 3. Communism calls for the abolition of private property. That computer you're reading this debate on? Yeah. It's not yours. Belongs to the state. There is no evidence in the world that suggests people will turn communist and give up what they've worked hard to earn. In conclusion, my opponent brought no valid evidence to support his claim that Capitalism will fall and be replaced with communism. Instead, he pointed to the U.S.'s national debt and saying that it is a good indicator of the nation's collapse with no professional economic input of what the U.S.'s projections are for the upcoming decade. Then, he used a slippery slope fallacy saying that after the collapse, workers will unite and install a communist system with no other evidence, data, or a technical approach to show it will happen beyond any questionable doubt. As you all are aware, evidence is mandatory when holding the positive claim, and my opponent brought forth absolutely nothing to support his theory. Thank you for your time this round. Live long and prosper, trekkie fan.