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Most people in capitalist countries never leave the economic bracket they were born into. Capitalism is a primitive system of elites and peasants, filled with squalor and death.

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[–] ProxyTheAwesome@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

jokes on them (and us). There must always be a reserve army of labor and a proletarian class, so genociding the poor never works out and a new poor class emerges

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

I don't know how anyone can understand the reserve army of labor and still fall for this line

[–] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

For anyone interested or who hasn't seen this, it's the 2020 UN Poverty Report, which is highly critical of neoliberal "prosperity" rhetoric: https://chrgj.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Alston-Poverty-Report-FINAL.pdf

[–] w00tabaga@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (21 children)

Is it only communists that post here?

[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

That's the cover story fedposting

[–] princeofsin@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm a lib but don't tell these guys. The status-quo is super cool and nice

[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

I'm a classical liberal

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

I'm a communalist

[–] stigsbandit34z@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

And anti-capitalists

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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Cmon just kill me

I need the flag in the meme for future memes pls 🙏

[–] rah@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (96 children)

Capitalism is a primitive system of elites and peasants, filled with squalor and death.

As is China. As was the USSR.

What you've described is just humans, not capitalism. Alas.

[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

oppa gangnam style

[–] JeffBozo@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Human nature

[–] xj9@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

my favorite story about human nature is when the Spanish (who didn't bathe because of human nature) thought that people were burning incense to praise them as gods, but it was actually because they smelled like a butt hole. nahuas and their neighbors had universal education AND hygiene AND high living standards.

but I can't argue with human nature, the Americas aren't full of historical counterfactuals at all.

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