Did Socialism fulfilled a role of keeping Capitalism in check in the West during the cold war years?

Did Socialism fulfilled a role of keeping Capitalism in check in the West during the cold war years?
According to capitalism's own principle of the free market you need to have competition to provide people with options to choose from.

Indeed.

Capitalism faced a crisis in the 30s and while America and Britain had a horrible time with starving children and shit, the NAZIS and the Soviet Union did just fine.

Everyone was like Capitalism LOL and so the elite had to improve things for the people to show that capitalism worked for them too.

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, it was no longer necessary for the capitalist class to help the working class and that's why you see all neoliberal policy directing the flow of cash to the .01%.

At the same time, the left shifted its goal from class issues to social justice identity politics bullshit, and they now attack the working class as stupid bigots. In this regard the Left are just the useful idiots of Oligarchy.

And what of you? You are on your own.

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>At the same time, the left shifted its goal from class issues to social justice identity politics bullshit, and they now attack the working class as stupid bigots. In this regard the Left are just the useful idiots of Oligarchy.
When Communism was still around in the 70s Capitalism had to show it cares for the poeple, that's why it was so much better for babyboomers. Things got noticeably worse for the middle class after Communism was defeated, and every country with a powerful and threatening Socialist movement has a large and prosperous middle class. Now they are batshit scared they'll be called commies if they try to change the system.

>he fell into ""competition"" meme

Holy mother of D-g

Yeah, there are multiple companies on that chart.

A fucking kangaroo

why the fuck is she wearing crocs?

They're cheap.

Why doesn't Coke branch out into anything besides soft drinks? Pepsi Co has a little of fucking everything. I thought Coke was the bigger brand.

They did back in the 80s. They owned Columbia Pictures and had a very popular clothing line. Think the New Coke disaster convinced investors that Coke needed to focus on soft drinks and not be distracted by the happenings Hollywood or their garment factory in Burma.

Coke here also owns milk diaries :D

Did she just walk through that wall made of rock?

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The only reason this happens is because we have laws that protect those big conglomerates without having laws to defend us against them.

For real capitalism to exist we either have a fully balanced set of laws that puts every person and corporation on the same level or we don't have any at all.

>person and corporation
oh boy

Nice false equivalent there buddy.
Capitalism needs competition within its markets not a competitor trying to kill it.
Its called the great depression and we are at this point talking about finance capitalism not regular capitalism just like you dont equate social capitalism to socialism which btw have similar bubbles because of market planning.

Its been finance capitalism for over 100 years already
When people talk about capitalism anytime during the 20th and 21sy centuries thats what theyre talking about

Why not make her your waifu instead?

>30s
>Soviet Union did just fine.

>Capitalism faced a crisis in the 30s and while America and Britain had a horrible time with starving children and shit, the NAZIS and the Soviet Union did just fine.

you are beyond retarded

Indeed. Big oligarchies were prevented from simply sacking the middle class, as it has happened after 1990.

underrated