cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/36828107

ID: WookieeMark @EvilGenXer posted:

"OK so look, Capitalism is right wing.

Period.

If you are pro-capitalism, you are Right Wing.

There is no pro-capitalist Left. That’s a polite fiction in the US that no one can afford any longer as the ecosystem is actually collapsing around us."

  • SauerkrautEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    Is Capitalism a bad thing? No. It can be great when it works.

    I think the critical difference is that communism has never had a chance to be tried without capitalist countries attacking them. Capitalist Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union and then the Capitalist USA forced the USSR into an economic cold war. Then the US bombed the shit out of socialist countries for 50 years. Communist China was threatened with a economic cold war if they didn’t join the “free market”.

    But we have tried capitalism for 300 years and it produces horrible atrocities: leaded gasoline, mass starvation in 3rd world countries, child sweat shops, slavery, sex trafficking, destroying the planet for profit, billionaire oligarchs destroying democracy, etc