Cold+War

Capitalism vs Communism Explained

This article is a very comedic comparison between Capitalism and Communism that pokes fun at how unreasonably oppressed Communism made its people. One of the author's jokes made in the article is when he says "Capitalist media consider it their duty to catch capitalist politicians in wrong-doing." And then directly after it says "Communist media consider it their duty to catch capitalist politicians in wrong-doing." which is supposed to reference the communist people's inability to say anything that could anger their political leaders and so instead focused on the wrongdoing of capitalist leaders. Then he goes on to make another joke about how capitalists regard celebrities and communists do saying "Capitalists adore actors, radio talk show hosts and musicians." and "Communists adore politicians, dead Communist Dictators and, well.......more politicians." since they are obligated to praise their superiors and there are no people who live in a higher class to look up to besides their superiors.

Overall, the article is well composed and very silly. It has some great moments of dark humor (which I like) such as when speaking about communistic medical treatment, "In pure communist countries medical care is free and you must wait your turn to receive it. Often government officials decide whether or not you can receive treatment for any given condition. You may die before you get it, but it's free." I found the way he adds "but it's free" at the end of that sentence is hilarious. He also goes a strange route and talks about dancers in capitalism and in communism and ends up making the joke that American ballerinas train to become professional and go to New York and that Russian ballerinas train to leave their country and go to New York to get away from communism.