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zeppo@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoDo I have a citation that starvation exists in capitalist countries as well? I don’t think comparing the rest of the world to the US, which is extraordinarily well-positioned economically for a variety of reasons, makes much sense. Even so, we have 15-30 million people in the US who experience occasional or chronic food insecurity.
As far as Cuba, who knows how they would have done without decades of a US trade embargo. Venezuela has suffered under looting and misrule by authoritarian dictators, not communism.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Cuba is only embargoed from us. Pretty much everyone else in the world trades with them.
Authoritarian dictators. Communism. It is all the same thing.
zeppo@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Ha ha, no. If that’s the angle you’re coming from that explains a lot.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Name one that hasn’t been the same.
zeppo@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
oh, a capitalist economy? yep, they all feature people on the lower economic rung starving. check out the industrial revolution in the UK for a great example.