Comment on When we explain to other people how our capitalist system works and they recoil in horror
MellowYellow13@lemmy.world 3 days agoYou are privileged beyond belief. Capitalism is based on slavery and genocide coupled with the military industrial complex. It is fucked, nothing good about it
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Feudalism is based on slavery and genocide. Capitalism is based on industrial development yielding a compounding rate of return.
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.