Comment on When we explain to other people how our capitalist system works and they recoil in horror

• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Capitalism has zero benefits whatsoever

  Even Marx didn’t believe that. Capitalism is an outgrowth of industrialization, repetitively turning low-surplus undeveloped real estate into high-surplus improved real estate. If you’re not generating and then reinvesting your surplus, you’re not going to move past a feudal agrarian economy into a post-scarcity socialist state without that process.

  you have American brainrot

  This is, at absolute worst, British/German brainrot. The Americans fetishized the idea of capitalism and hid from its excesses with westward migration. But the Old World scholars were shoved into the maw and out the anus of it a century earlier.

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  • MellowYellow13@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You are privileged beyond belief. Capitalism is based on slavery and genocide coupled with the military industrial complex. It is fucked, nothing good about it

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Capitalism is based on slavery and genocide

      Feudalism is based on slavery and genocide. Capitalism is based on industrial development yielding a compounding rate of return.

      It is fucked, nothing good about it

      Its a historical stage of economic development every society ultimately passes through. Again, go back and read Das Kapital. Go pick up a copy of Piketty’s Capitalism in the 21st Century. Get a book on Lenin’s NEP or Dengism or the modernization of Castro’s Cuba. Even the most staunch leftist cannot escape the materialist need to industrialize.

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