One of the key dialogic virtues is listening carefully, and identifying points of agreement and points of disagreement. Consider the following exchange between Trev and Dave: Trev: Communism is a bad system. Capitalism is much better. One big communist regime in the 20th century was the Soviet Union, and the communists who were in power there murdered millions of their own citizens. Communism has been properly tested in a number of countries, and it is a total disaster. Capitalism is not a perfect system, but it is far better than communism. You can tell that it’s better by the fact that so many people try to emigrate to capitalist countries, and much smaller numbers of people try to move to communist countries. Dave: No, capitalism is not a better system than communism. Of course it’s true that millions of people in the Soviet Union were murdered by their governments during the 20th century. This was a terrible tragedy. But this was not real communism. These were totalitarian governments, not true communist governments. Actually, nowhere in the world has there been a true communist government in place. What happened in the Soviet Union was not a proper test of communism. I guess more people do try to emigrate to capitalist countries than to communist ones, but that doesn’t show that capitalism is better than communism. It just shows that lots of people are greedy, and that they want to get rich. Do Trev and Dave agree or disagree on the following points? Communism is a better system than capitalism [ Select ] Disagree Agree During the 20th century millions of people in the Soviet Union were murdered by their governments. [ Select ] Agree Disagree During the 20th century millions of people were murdered by their communist governments [ Select ] Disagree Agree Capitalism is not a perfect system. Agree Communism has been properly tested [ Select ] Disagree Agree More people try to emigrate to capitalist countries [ Select ] Disagree Agree Emigration rates are an adequate test of how good a political system is [ Select ] Agree Disagree