I’m Not Afraid of Communism

Samuel Smurlo
2 min readApr 29, 2022

I believe in economics. I don’t mean that I believe in the power of money. I believe in capitalism in so far as I believe that money and markets are an uncontrollable beast that react and respond to the actions of humans regardless of their intent. Capitalists believe that they can and should control this flow, economics could give two fucks about your beliefs because as far as the economy is concerned there are 7+ billion individual sets of belief that will influence it.

Capitalism and communism are effectively the same economic equations from different perspectives. Both…

Samuel Smurlo

I mostly write for me and on the off chance that someone can gain something from my thoughts I publish them here.