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DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Smif_N_Lenin@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  But have you considered scary black book of communism?

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  • richardwallass@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    the claims that Courtois made in the book’s introduction were not even accepted by all of his own contributors.

    The figure encompasses the number of Vietnamese casualties resulting from armed conflict with the US.

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    • Smif_N_Lenin@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      As the historian Ronald Aronson pointed out, even if Margolin did not cite the figure of one million victims of Vietnamese Communism invented by Courtois in the introduction, at no point in his chapter on Communism in Asia did he mention that the US intervention in Vietnam had cost, according to some estimates, up to three million lives.

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  • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    never heard of it :)

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    • Smif_N_Lenin@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      altr

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      • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Oh no. not again.

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• Pudutr0n@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  capitalism being a system that promotes the accumulation of wealth / power by few to exert over many? So like… nature? Yeah, that would be everyone.

  Everyone that has ever died ever is due to capitalism. :)

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  • rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Capitalism is not human nature.

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    • Pudutr0n@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      what is capitalism?

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      • Wrufieotnak@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Capitalism is the private ownership of the means of production.

        There are special subdivisions with certain extra features, but the bare bones definition is just that.

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      • hamsamrich@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        THIS IS CAPITALISM?

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  • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So like… nature?

    we are a societal race, that thrives on empathy and community.

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    • Pudutr0n@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      social animals, yes.

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      • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        yes, as I said.

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  • Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Capitalism as a mode of production is only a few hundred years old. It’s essentially a mode of production where private ownership is the principal aspect of the economy, and capital owners control the state. Before capitalism was feudalism, and before feudalism came slave societies, and before those came tribal communalism.

    Human nature is incredibly malleable and depends most upon how we produce and distribute, how we live and how our environment shapes us.

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    • Pudutr0n@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      how is it different if you substitute economic capital with political capital?

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      • Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I mean the means of production and distribution.

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• Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Idk, seems like a lot of food gets delivered places.

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  • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Which is a bare minimum to treating the symptoms of capitalism. So that means nothing, while the world fucking burns due to to insatiable wealth pisser.

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    • Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What would work better on a 8 billion multinational people scale? While still affording individual national cultures and freedom of expression.

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      • Pudutr0n@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I love you, Chippy. <3

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      • BrainInABox@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Communism

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