Marxism is much better, but it has nasty habit of killing farmers and starving its people to death.

Marx is the most important critic of capitalism and dismissing his critique with “Stalin though” does not really address the point. Even if you think Marxism is totally bad in all it’s forms that does not mean that Marx’ critique of capitalism is invalid. You don’t have to be a cook to know if a soup is over-salted.

There are better critics of capitalism, social democracy has long tradition. Marx never visited factory and hated dirty workers. He was an "intellectual". Actually go and read his books, not just quotes.

Sure, but maybe this is still progress. I would much rather be “publicly traded” than “privately held”.

Also, missing from this argument is the inevitability that every communist government just outright enslaves its people.

> communist government

Pick one. Communism - as described by Marx - is definitionally stateless. Any government calling itself "communist" is lying. Any supporter of such a government calling oneself "communist" is lying.

The world would be a much better place if we as individuals would actually critically examine things instead of taking them at face value. The irony of people continuing to object to so-called "collectivism" while themselves collectively masquerading misinformation as fact is thick enough to spread on toast.