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Re:I was a useful idiot for capitalism by VulgarExigency on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @06:54AM (#34079465)
Was he wrong?

Regardless, yes, he is. I am a marxist-leninist.

Re:I was a useful idiot for capitalism by oblio on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @07:23AM (#34079738)
Well, he is, depending on your perspective.

For the developed countries, yes, there's a regression for the lower and middle classes.

For developing countries, which are very much developing due to capitalism, there is a <<huge>> improvement in quality of life right now.

I'd argue that life is improving for more people (in developing countries) than it's regressing (in developed countries).

Re:I was a useful idiot for capitalism by hulitu on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @11:44AM (#34082984)
>For developing countries, which are very much developing due to capitalism, there is a <<huge>> improvement in quality of life right now.

And which are the coutries "which are very much developing due to capitalism" ?

Re:I was a useful idiot for capitalism by oblio on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @11:53AM (#34083117)
Rephrasing that. Many developing countries are growing quickly due to capitalism.

So, which developing countries are growing thank to capitalism?

All of them.

All the rising developing countries are rising thanks to capitalism. China, Vietnam, South Korea/Taiwan (already developed by now), Romania, Poland, Czechia, Botswana, etc.

Re:I was a useful idiot for capitalism by bjornsing on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @11:50AM (#34083066)
And perhaps that’s not only economically sensible but also morally just.
Re:I was a useful idiot for capitalism by kodyo on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @10:57AM (#34082337)
He certainly set a high bar for the blackest of reactions to things.
Re:I was a useful idiot for capitalism by bladelessninja2 on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @11:48AM (#34083046)
> I am a marxist-leninist

How does it feel to support ideology that killed millions of people and sentenced multiple times more to live in poverty?

Re:I was a useful idiot for capitalism by VulgarExigency on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @12:08PM (#34083335)
I don't support capitalism.
Re:I was a useful idiot for capitalism by bladelessninja2 on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @12:34PM (#34083704)
Funny, but we are in an adult conversation now, you can't ignore facts with just some joke. Grow up.
Re:I was a useful idiot for capitalism by the_third_wave on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @12:53PM (#34083985)
It is a sad thing that you can state this without most people even twitching an eye while had you stated you were a national socialist everyone would shun you. The sad thing does not lie in the shunning of the national socialists but in the fact that its internationalist brethren in socialism are not treated in a similar fashion even though this ideology has destroyed far more lives than the former. Marxism-Leninism and its spin-offs - Stalinism, Maoism. Juche et al - deserve to be in the same corner as national socialism but alas, these ideologies thrive in places of education and as such children and students are mostly or only told of the evils of Nazism. I can see this happen at my daughter's school where they've focused a large part of their curriculum around just that, including a visit to Auschwitz. I proposed they'd also spend some time on studying Solidarność and its struggle against the Soviets given that they were in Poland where the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union took place but this was not to be.