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Re:The destructive new logic that threatens globalisation by miroljub on Thursday January 12, 2023 @11:38AM (#34356261)
Free market is not a religion that everyone has to follow. That was just a set of conventions that people follow if they benefit from it. As soon as China and other free countries [1] realized they can follow other rules that are more beneficial to them, they naturally shifted to that model.

[1] There are countries that do things that are more beneficial to someone else than own interests, but they don't count as free.

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Re:The destructive new logic that threatens globalisation by e_i_pi_2 on Thursday January 12, 2023 @02:38PM (#34359177)
Parts of Spain have a history of anarchism and syndicalism, with an explicit recognition that it was a way to fight back against an economic system that was taking advantage of them.[1]

Chile tried to do something similar when they realized a lot of their mines were owned by US companies, they elected a new leader who was going to nationalize the mines, but then the US govt backed a coup to overthrow him and install a dictator.[2]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism_in_Spain [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d'%C3%A9tat

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