• @[email protected]
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    032 minutes ago

    Dunno poverty rates have dropped immensely since the introduction of capitalist systems.

    • Dessalines
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      No, most of the world is capitalist, and most of the world is poor. Only a minority of imperialist capitalist countries, primarily in europe and the US, have wealthier populations due to hundreds of years of colonial exploitation.

      In fact world poverty is increasing, if we exclude China and it’s poverty eradication efforts.

  • @[email protected]
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    54 hours ago

    I agree, white capitalism is so last year, get with the latest fashion and use black capitalism.

  • ceoofanarchism
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    135 hours ago

    Capitalism can’t help anyone out of poverty at least not without exploiting masses.

    • @Noodle07
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      Just exploit the whites? Big brain

  • @[email protected]
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    White capitalism is what made black people slaves and pushed them into poverty.

    Perhaps we need new ideas that help everyone.

      • @[email protected]
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        107 hours ago

        I mean, it gives deference to rich people, but when it was legal to discriminate against POC, they had a massive disadvantage in pretty much every aspect of their lives. Not perfect, but much improved now…

        • flicker
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          Also Black Wall Street got hate crimed off the face of the earth, so I’d say “white capitalism” is fair enough.

    • @[email protected]
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      Africans enslaved and sold other Africans by the millions for centuries before white people arrived on the continent. Though they certainly made it worse when they did.

      • @[email protected]
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        235 minutes ago

        I’m not sure you have enough of a historical framework on population to make the claim you’re mindlessly repeating, but I appreciate that you “people” out yourselves so readily so normal humans can avoid you. Good luck on truth social or Facebook or x I guess.

    • @[email protected]
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      “Black capitalism” is historically the approach of some African American* communities and individuals to resist racial oppression by embracing capitalism and out-competing whites in it, essentially. This met its most famous manifestation in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which developed a wealthy black capitalist class, but neighboring white towns got mad at this and basically leveled a good portion of the town and killed many people. For reasons beyond me, some liberals hold up Tulsa as some wonderful thing and proof that black people should just be more engaged in capitalism, and they ignore how the experiment ended.

      The most famous “black capitalism” proponent is the Jamaican-born American Marcus Garvey, who some Rastafarians worship as a prophet. To poison the well immediately, he was supported by the KKK in his projects to send African Americans “back to” Africa, because their ideologies and aims of ethnonationalism broadly aligned.

      *It’s mostly an American thing, but it’s not exclusively an American thing by any means

      • @Passerby6497
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        For reasons beyond me, some liberals hold up Tulsa as some wonderful thing and proof that black people should just be more engaged in capitalism, and they ignore how the experiment ended.

        The easy answer is that racism destroyed Tulsa, not capitalism. Were it not for racist fucks, that experiment would have worked wonderfully. But that’s a tale as old as time, unfortunately.

      • @[email protected]
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        So… corporate collusion between black businesses owners? I suppose that would equalize the market a bit if they do manage to kick down corps like amazon

  • @someguy3
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    137 hours ago

    You know that’s really a brilliant rebuttal.

  • @[email protected]
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    I mean, it helped bolster rationale for enslaving black people. It’s fair to say that capitalism tips the scales, steals your car, and then runs over your neighbor before disappearing with your spouse and your dog/cat.

    • @[email protected]
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      It didn’t just bolster the rationale for enslaving black people, it largely executed the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Those boats weren’t publicaly owned, and neither were the captured slaves, the slavers were entrepreneurs and their employees doing business.

  • @Mango
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    67 hours ago

    Thank fuck.

    White people get pegged for rich people bullshit too much.

  • Sabre363
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    68 hours ago

    Or maybe race doesn’t really exist outside our dumb little brains and capitalism was the real problem all along