Don’t also forget all the times capitalism didn’t prevented famine, failed (or didn’t even tried) to fight it or outright caused it. And then lied in wiki about number of victims in the commie countries.

Then Capitalism evolved into ever-higher Imperialism, whereby the bulk of Global North consumption is produced by slave-like labor in the Global South.

“But that expropriation of the Third World—has been going on for 400 years—brings us to another revelation—namely, that the Third World is not poor. You don’t go to poor countries to make money. There are very few poor countries in this world. Most countries are rich! The Philippines are rich! Brazil is rich! Mexico is rich! Chile is rich—only the people are poor. But there’s billions to be made there, to be carved out, and to be taken—there’s been billions for 400 years! The Capitalist European and North American powers have carved out and taken the timber, the flax, the hemp, the cocoa, the rum, the tin, the copper, the iron, the rubber, the bauxite, the slaves, and the cheap labour. They have taken out of these countries—these countries are not underdeveloped—they’re overexploited!”

-Dr. Michael Parenti

Hey now, I was taught it’s evil because someone might benefit from my labor that isn’t me.

Just sit there and think about that for a minute or two.

Technically, it was invented by the Dutch several decades earlier.

Also, might want to throw in that Communism - as a materialist struggle - was first and foremost an anti-colonial struggle, with local communal economic organizing simply being the most efficient way of rebasing the ownership of liberated capital. “Under communism, no food!” inevitably overlooks the horrifying wars (the World Wars, specifically) that obliterated much of these countries’ arable infrastructure and population, prompting the revolution that capitalists blame for the famine.

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