I didn't say I prefer them, I said that historically over and over again they get the goods. The problems you're asking about are questions all successful revolutions have succeeded at grappling with.
I don’t believe in revolutions
Like, that they historically exist and have resulted in massive gains for the working class, or what?
Do you think not believing voting can affect change is the same as thinking the masses aren't capable of affecting change?
How can you dream of revolutions without believing in voters?
You're the one who doesn't believe in the masses.
You are appealing to authority.
Yes, and it is an appropriate appeal. It is the equivalent of pointing at physicists while arguing with a flat earthen.
I don’t question that communism and Socialism can create better housing. My point is that as long as you are in capitalism, you have to play by capitalist rules.
Okay, so stop doing capitalism. You just said that socialism produces better outcomes.
Blaming landlords is counter-productive because renters don’t feel the need to build the power to influence the next election.
That won't do anything. Build tenants unions and then find where your landlord lives and have a pleasant conversation with them about collective bargaining and what collective bargaining is the historical alternative to, at the minimum.
Now read the beginning of the second and third paragraph
I dont mean this as a diss, but you shouldn't be so smug when I have to hold your hand like this.
I would maybe research historical examples where land reform has worked instead of continuing to pester me.
Landlords are not parasites.
The father of classical economics and the father of Marxian economics are in agreement about landlords being parasites but you have been blessed with divine knowledge that says they aren't. Please, impart your wisdom on the masses. /s
Seriously, imagine the ego to think you know better than literally the people behind the two major competing economic analysis systems.
But you want to abolish the idea of rent. What will happen?
Literally look into how much nicer housing is in places that succeeded at communist land reform. Talk to Vietnamese and Cuban people about how housing is handled. Plenty of them speak English if you're monolingual. (Not vietnamese american or cuban American, people who actually live in the current systems)
These both are relying on thinking you're the person in charge of the economy in a system were you aren't.