<p>@LogicWarrior</p>
<p>For someone with the name logic in your name, you really didn’t have much support for your statements.</p>
<p>1800s America had post office monopolies, defense monopolies, law monopolies, taxes, tariffs, etc. </p>
<p>Not even close to pure capitalism.</p>
<p>I’ll leave it to someone else to distinguish between pure communism and the Soviet Union as I still don’t fully understand communist/socialist reasoning since they argue that the Soviet Union was a form of state capitalism yet at the same time they advocate for the use of the state to protect interests of certain groups (e.g. “the workers”).</p>