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*Kills. Still does.
Sure yes but I don’t see a workable alternative.
China would like to disagree.
Western culture won’t work like that. Germany is about as far as we go, and that’s still capitalism.
Doesn’t =/= Wouldn’t
I am fearful about the extreme ignorance, simple mindedness and gullibility of some of the electorate. They are completely blind to the effects of neoliberalism, which is the main guiding force behind the bumptious, odious and fascist/racist Reform party who believe that competition is the defining characteristic of human relations. It redefines citizens as consumers, whose democratic choices are best exercised by buying and selling, a process that rewards merit and punishes inefficiency. It maintains that “the market” delivers benefits that could never be achieved by planning. Attempts to limit competition are treated as inimical to liberty. Tax and regulation should be minimised; public services should be privatised. The organisation of labour and collective bargaining by trade unions are portrayed as market distortions that impede the formation of a natural hierarchy of winners and losers. Inequality is recast as virtuous: a reward for utility and a generator of wealth, which trickles down to enrich everyone. Efforts to create a more equal society are both counterproductive and morally corrosive. The market ensures that everyone gets what they deserve. We internalise and reproduce its creeds. The rich persuade themselves that they acquired their wealth through merit, ignoring the advantages – such as education, inheritance, and class – that may have helped to secure it. The poor begin to blame themselves for their failures, even when they can do little to change their circumstances.
Violence & Greed go hand & hand
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Capitalism is dominant because it is the only model known to survive with stability long term over massive populations.
Gee I wonder why socialist countries you are thinking of just up and failed?! Just spontaneously happened, no external interference whatsoever, no siree!
Capitalism hasn’t even survived with stability in the short term: it’s yet to manage even a century without a catastrophic crisis.
Capitalism has instability built into its model because it generates inevitable class conflict that has to be resolved through violence. There is no such thing as a stable capitalist state.
They didn’t have to recede to survive, they were fucking killed that’s why they’re not socialist anymore. Because they were all overthrown or sanctioned to hell or invaded.
Capitalism continues to kill vastly more people than the inflated claims about communism. Every year 10 million people die from starvation and preventable disease simply because it isn’t profitable to save them. That means that every 10 years capitalism kills as many as claimed in the Black Book of Communism, the source with the highest number of fatalities attributed to communism.
US sanctions alone have killed 38 million people in the last 50 years.
I should add that the Black Book includes ridiculous things like Nazi soldier deaths in WW2, and the hypothetical children that possibly could have been born if things like the 1933 famine or WW2 didn’t happen. I shouldn’t have even called it a source, but anti-communists love treating it like gospel.
Including or not including gang violence
Don’t forget India!
Most of Asia, really
Always did.
Yeah it’s literally killing people right now.
Can’t pay for shelter, food, water or medicine? Go into debt, jail or the morgue, we don’t give a fuck.
i did some calculations a few years back with some friends on a whim during a sidetracked DnD campaign. we came to the conclusion that capitalism is directly and indirectly responsible for over 20+ million recorded deaths annually all over the world, as a conservative estimate
main contributers were poverty, disease, war, lack of quality healthcare, and state violence.
we also found that the existence of 1 billionaire has an annual death count, purely by subtracting that money from the economic cycle and direct aid. i cant remember now, but it was in the thousands of deaths per billion denied to those in need by hoarding wealth.
billionaires are violent, purely through their existence. and we shouldnt tolerate any form of violence against us.
we should sincerely be dragging these fuckers into the street and ripping them to pieces.
Social murder.
Lead killed more is still killing and nobody even talks about it.
And are people being exposed to lead because they’re huffing it for fun or because they work within a capitalist system that doesn’t care enough about exposing people to lead?
Plenty of people talk about the issues with lead, what are you on?
lead is banned almost everywhere and the cost of replacing it is too high in e.g. pipes
‘Everything I dislike is capitalism and the more I dislike it the more capitalismer it is’- Karl Marx
Person who has never read a word of Marx but has an opinion anyway
^ how to say you’re an ignoramus who’s never read a book
It makes sense. There are way more people in capitalistic countries than in communist ones
India wasn’t a capitalist country when they colonised us and killed millions of us.
cringe
You gotta put the * * if you want it to emote
Guess they both suck.
Which country reached communism and then how did it suck equally as bad as 10 million poor people dying every year under capitalism?
Remember you used this logic next time we have to listen to you stump for literally Hitler in a blue necktie
enlightened centrism at its finest
If you’re gonna use violence to enforce your will I’m gonna call you an asshole.
Tell that to the 19th Haitian slaves I’m sure they’d love to hear your opinion on their revolutionary action
Braindead lib take.
So the people who fought to win their independence and the people who rebelled against the aristocracy to establish democratic rule are all assholes.
Hmm yes, very nice. Now let’s hear your take on Ukraine
So what you’re saying is you think the slave revolts were done by assholes, got it.
So you’re against people defending themselves from rapists? Crazy.
Weird to believe the Native Americans were wrong for fighting back against american imperialists.
Can’t believe you believe the people who downed plane 93 were wrong.
Funny to take the stance that Ukraine is wrong for fighting Russia.
It’s not the first time I’ve seen someone declare part of the french revolution invalid due to violence, but all of it? That’s new.
Same goes for the American Revolution, really weird to think its wrong for fighting.
Ive never met anyone who thinks the boston tea party was bad, apart from you. Or at least not on those grounds.
Youre the first person I’ve met that agrees with Ghandi that the Jews should have just killed themselves during the Holocaust.
Good. I do not care. I want to use extreme state violence, EXTREME VIOLENCE, to suppress capitalism. No ground, no sympathy, no mercy.
So do you hate all governments or politics that have cops or jails?
If you’re gonna use violence to enforce your will I’m gonna call you an asshole.
You’re calling everyone who ever fought for their liberation assholes. Could it be you’re the asshole?
Western liberals will cheer for the brave people risking their lives against state violence in some far away country. But the moment it touches their own country and their own skin, suddenly they only support state violence being closeted fascists that they are.
Good thing I’m not a fucking liberal. Assholes fighting for oil are still assholes.
Not knowing what words mean doesn’t make you immune to being named by them
War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.
Quoting a rapist. Classic
You are arguing like a liberal for Liberal ideas, this makes you a liberal, no matter what dumbass tendency you would ascribe to yourself.
You are arguing like a liberal for Liberal ideas, this makes you a liberal, no matter what dumbass tendency you would ascribe to yourself.
Good thing I’m not a fucking liberal
if it quacks like a duck…
