1294
rating
75
debates
18.0%
won
Topic
#1358
Socialism
Status
Finished
The debate is finished. The distribution of the voting points and the winner are presented below.
Winner & statistics
After 2 votes and with 11 points ahead, the winner is...
Trent0405
Parameters
- Publication date
- Last updated date
- Type
- Standard
- Number of rounds
- 5
- Time for argument
- One day
- Max argument characters
- 100
- Voting period
- One week
- Point system
- Multiple criterions
- Voting system
- Open
1711
rating
34
debates
85.29%
won
Description
Karl Marx was wrong about more stuff than he got right, I never liked him he looked smelly and dirty and he was a lazy malcontent.Do you know who I did like his successor Eduard Bernstein who saw a peaceful evolutionary democratic path through gradual reform . But Socialism is inevitable for reasons they ignored , we simply cant survive unless we heavily regulate our conduct, greed and inequality are killing the planet. And if we have to slow economic growth to the pace of a snail , so what? all the better, rapid growth is reckless
Round 1
The planet is going to hell in a hat basket in our to save it we must radically change
Well capitalism has lifted many people out of poverty, I believe capitalism is better and what we should strive toward.
Round 2
Forfeited
Socialism has killed 100 million people depending on your classifications.
Note the poor conduct on my opponent.
Round 3
the black book of communism has been debunked
Socialism is what we're talking about. My points have been dropped, my opponents rebuttal is unclear/unsourced.
Round 4
WEll its simple, Capitalism is better now, in the same way a horse and buggy was before cars
So we haven't discovered/invented socialism? Yes we have, a long time ago.
Socialism has basically never worked.
Round 5
Forfeited
Note my opponents poor conduct, I fell I've given good reasons why Socialism is bad
As RM said, 2/5 isn't half and thus your vote cannot stand. It is removed
Note for my RFD I said R3 meaning R4
2/5 isn't half.
oops missed your sources, can you clarify what you mean
First of all that figure 100 million totally made up https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/7n6ql2/is_the_black_book_of_communism_an_accurate_source/
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/multimedia-article/podcast-economic-growth-environment/ in our efforts to save the earth we must radically change our conduct and values