• orc girly@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      Capitalism requires Infinite growth in a finite world which historically frequently leads to powerful capitalist countries competing for who can colonize and brutalize other countries and peoples in search for resources and new markets. Western capitalism is built on top of the bodies of those who aren’t western or benefiting from capitalism. Hence the claim you don’t consider us human, otherwise you’d consider that even though almost every country out there is capitalist most countries are extremely poor and overexploited.

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        2 months ago

        I see.

        My main point was limited to Europe and vicinity of the USSR. I did not mean for it to come off as dehumanising.

        I am more than aware of the faults and harm or capitalism, I am aware of how colonialism wrecked anything in it’s path.

        To clarify: I was trying to explain how my country was poor, exploited and abused under soviet rule. I was trying to point out how these things did not just magically start after a change of regime, and that they were not happening before.

        Thank you for the clarification

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          2 months ago

          My main point was limited to Europe and vicinity of the USSR. I did not mean for it to come off as dehumanising.

          Deciding to arbitrarily ignore the largest most sophisticated immiseration machine in history to only look at the benefits for the core of the empire is disingenuous at best and very clearly dehumanising to the millions who suffered so the core could enjoy those benefits.

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            2 months ago

            Aren’t you people here also ignoring the misery people suffered only to look at the benefits of the core?

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              Who is you people? I simply pointed out your framing of Europe as an independent entity from the mass immiseration it lead alongside the US for its own massive profit is arbitrary and dehuminising the pretty much the entire global south/periphery. Not to mind it being a bad start that leads to bad analysis and idiotic conclusions which I didn’t bother to mention last time.