| Comment | >Capitalism is the reason colonisation, slavery and imperialism happened. Capitalism is the reason the EU imposes agricultural tariffs on African produce, reducing their ability to emancipate themselves from poverty so as to retain market shares for EU produce.
Because there was no slavery or colonisation before the renaissance? What a stupid thing to say
>Which country has pulled more people out of poverty than any other in the 21st century? China. Which country pulled more people out of poverty than any other in the 20th century? The Soviet Union.
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This has to be a joke. The indescribable suffering of the people of Russia in the 20th century being reduced to "people being pulled out of poverty".
China also has a controlled "capitalist" economy. Sometimes the lines are more blurred than you'd like people to believe. |
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