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Not as violent - only as far as the average Joe is concerned. The actions committed as a direct result of government decisions/commands are frequently just as bad, if not worse. You and I just aren't directly involved in those.
If you want some interesting (and depressing & frustrating) reading, check out The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to US Empire.
Well, if you read Wikileaks' latest book you'll see they have the documents that prove they did pay for the last one they did (2014), and it is all the same characters from last time, the same people who are constantly ferried between Caracas and Arlington Virginia to meet CIA officials and who give speeches in DC about how they're going to succeed in overthrowing the chavistas the next time. You can read a summary of the wikileaks for Venezuela here.
> Capitalism has been consistently proven to raise the standards of living wherever it has been tried.
Google the word neoliberalism sometime, and spend a day researching it.
> Meanwhile, every single attempt at socialism - the USSR, the PRC, the DPRK, Venezuela, Cuba - has resulted in disaster, and has lowered the standards of living wherever it has been tried.
In what sense are these socialist, apart from what they call themselves in name? An anarcho-capitalist can have some actual, justified criticisms against socialism in practice (I've seen many), but when people like you plow forward with such an elementary misunderstanding, believe me when I say you look bad, even to your own camp.
The Zapatistas? The Paris Commune? The Ukrainian Free Territories? Revolutionary Catalonia? The Israeli Kibbutzim? That is your actual target.
> There is a reason why every single country that was once considered communist has transitioned towards capitalism...
Because they were bombed to hell in the interest of the capitalist class?
> ... and it should be no surprise to anyone that the standard of living has raised in these areas.
Like the four asian tigers did through State intervention? (And like the US did, also). Nothing even close to a free market prescription, albeit a quasi-capitalist one nevertheless.