Americans too. We had Hitler Youth camps all across the country. Henry Ford was a pen pal to the Fuhrer. Even when we were involved in WWII, we put Japanese people into our own concentration camps.
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Greed is a powerful force. Even now, so many people have no qualms about doing outright destructive things to other people if they make a lot of money doing it. Capitalism encourages all of it too.
The more I read about Poland-Axis relations, the more disturbing it gets. The way the Nazis are portrayed as just some rogue movement acting alone is disgusting. They had many collaborators and bourgeois support.
You see when China does something good, it’s because of capitalism but when they do something bad, it’s communism
I just don’t get how you can read the theory and then disparage China. These ultras and “Maoist” types are guilty of the same sort of idealistic crap that liberals and fascists build their worldviews on in my opinion, even if they are well meaning.
China isn’t perfect, but unlike so many other nations and political movements around the world, they know they aren’t perfect and are always improving.
Marxism-Leninism isn’t snap your fingers and make communism. It’s material analysis done by proletarian dictatorship.
As if the floodgates to massive fraud are currently closed
How many times now have western economists predicted some major collapse in China? It’s getting silly at this point
We’re taught to ignore/fear the homeless. It’s not unlike the old Indian Caste System in that way. We look down upon them as if they are homeless because they’re addicted to drugs or because they’re lazy.
I’m an American and I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard the phrase “Don’t give money to the homeless, they’ll just use it to buy drugs”
My fear of death is mostly because I’m scared of leaving my wife and child in a desolate world where I can’t be there to support them, but at the same time, they are my biggest motivation for changing this world.
I don’t think you’re a coward, comrade. This is a very natural fear that we all carry with us at some point in our lives.
What helped me accept death is asking the question: “Would I really want to live forever?” Imagine immortality really. Watching everyone you know and care about die while you remain. Sounds like an awful existence to me.
Communism can only exist globally in a world without scarcity. So while I wholeheartedly accept socialism in one country, I think we have to acknowledge that China isn’t going to reach communism alone.
I do however think that Marxism is nothing if not constantly adapting or “reforming” to changing material conditions. So if the dictatorship of the proletariat remains, I think this is the only path towards developing socialism
Gaddafi pulled Libya out of debt and had a plan to help all of Africa do the same. But the Imperial Core made sure that couldn’t happen.
A big reason I think why the AES states struggle to produce food is that they have limited space for food production, especially since DPRK and Cuba have had to develop autarky, leaving even less available land for food production.
I’m not sure about DPRK because frankly, I have no idea where to look for reliable information about that country, but Cuba did shift to urban food production largely through the methods that you’ve outlined in your post and it seems as though it’s been modestly successful