The Politics of Heroin, The Great Heroin Coup, Trading with the Enemy, Rogue State, The Sword and the Dollar, Inventing Reality, Hot Money, Killing the Host, working on The Management of Savagery right now. That's a good sampling.
None of those books are antiamerican. It's only the greatest of patriots who are willing to look at their own country honestly and acknowledge its faults. It seems you have been blinded by the methanol of jingoism.
I've read some historical documents, such as some of the federalist papers. Personally, I believe capitalism is the most effective way to bring people up, as history has shown (not talking about what i mentioned before, just being clear) and is more ethical, since people are keeping what they worked for, and a population can't vote to take someone else's produce.
Capitalism engages in literal genocides for the sake of profit. It is wholly undemocratic. The country being invaded, couped, or taken over has no option to vote away those who topple their governments for oil or minerals or what have you. I don't see how that is more ethical.
There is no fairness in it. Total continuity exists between the barbarity of capitalism (from King Leopold's atrocities in the belgian congo for example) to the mass murder of ethnic chinese indonesians in the 60s to the modern sanctions campaigns of the US and the Iraq wars in the 90s to now.
Capitalism is utterly unconcerned with morality.
No communist country has ever fought a war of aggression. The last 500 years is a repetitive history of capitalist countries engaging in war to exploit the resources of smaller, weaker nations.
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Wow.
No communist country has ever fought a war of aggression. The last 500 years is a repetitive history of capitalist countries engaging in war to exploit the resources of smaller, weaker nations.
Vietnam and Korea their governments asked China for assistance. They didn't seek to conquer those countries or exploit their resources, just to defend them from Trump. Eritria the USSR fought with them to establish their independence as a country and again did not come to conquer them or exploit their resources.
The US has engaged in taking over people's governments nonstop since the end of WWII.
As instructive examples I point you to the destruction of the democratically elected government of Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran in 1953 at the behest of the Anglo American Oil Company and the toppling of the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala in 1954 at the behest of the United Fruit Company of Boston (which changed its name to Chiquita after all the bad press it got from the coup).
There are dozens and dozens of other examples, but these two are quite typical examples.
if you would like I can provide many more examples.
If you coup a government because a company in a capitalist country asks for it and you use the Intelligence services of the US to do it, I'd say that is fairly described as capitalist.
Capitalism is minimal government involvement in business. Getting government involved is not capitalist. It's happened in America, and I believe it needs to stop. That doesn't mean I believe in communism at all, though.
You don't need to believe in communism to see the bloody, genocidal nature of capitalism. The government of the US, a capitalist country, orchestrated many coups, invasions, and genocides.
I don't think you accurately understand capitalism and I am doing my best to be polite and rely on relatively easily verifiable evidence, but I am quite sure of this point.
so which number is it? 118 milion? 100 million? 65 million?
hmm?
How do they count those death tolls? Who is counted as among the dead?
do they include dead Nazis killed by the Red Army and and Red Army soldiers that the Nazis killed in those death tolls? (spoiler alert they do) Do they include the deaths from famine when USSR was embargoed from importing food? (yep they all do) Do they include civillian casualties inflicted upon the USSR by the Nazis? (again yes)
What is the authoritative count, mister geenis? HMM?
This shit all flows from the little black book which is LITERALLY nazi proaganda.
Go with the lowest one for all I care. But as you can see, communism is no better than capitalism when it comes to deaths, so I’d rather have the ability to increase my holdings through my hard work than have someone take my hard work and give away my holdings.
The lowest estimate-and the only credible one in my estimation-is 800K to 1.1 million most of whom were former nazis or their collaborators after WWII or Kulaks who died in exile in gulags. Personally I don't really have much of a problem with him killing Nazis given how many Russians the Nazis killed.
Communism is MUCH better than capitalism. The goal is to reduce poverty, especially the worst poverty so that all may live adequately instead of a few in supreme luxury.
You aren't a capitalist because you do not have capital. You just unfortunately consider yourself a temporarily disadvantaged millionaire (someone who thinks they will become rich but will in all probability not become rich). You have fallen victim to the idea of capitalism a fair system.
1: You ignore citations when provided, so why should I bother?
2: Your comment is proving my point. All these people are risking everything on a small chance to become citizens of a capitalist country, but none are taking that same risk to become citizens of a communist one.
Communist China had 30-55 million die because of famine due to them forcing millions of people out of the fields and into manufacturing jobs. And that’s just deaths from famine. It doesn’t include those who were murdered by the government for sedition.
Try again, Commie.
Or better yet, move to a communist country instead of trying to bring that BS here. I’m sure there’s one in the world that fits your ideology.
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To soychad below,
Go to the nearest Chinese consulate and ask for asylum.
Bruh do you know how difficult and expensive it is to get a visa, pay for international flights, and renounce your citizenship, and get a country to grant you citizenship? it's a lot of money.
Caption this Meme 