just_another_person@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 4 days agoOur allies may never forgive us. Anti-American forces, on the other hand, are giddy.www.rawstory.comexternal-linkmessage-square84fedilinkarrow-up1479arrow-down110
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minus-squarejagged_circle@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·3 days agoThe strong economy is a result of theft. The US has always been a piece of shit.
minus-squaregandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days agotheft and technology, i would say.
minus-squarejagged_circle@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoI guess, if you call smallpox and pistols and slavery technology
minus-squareThePyroPython@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·3 days agoI’m not disagreeing but that’s a bold claim about the US economy. Please share your sources, I’d like a read.
minus-squareT00l_shed@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·3 days agoFounded on slavery, and then you could argue that capitalism is inherently about theft. As someone else pointed out, banana republics.
minus-squareNuclearDolphin@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days agoLenin’s “Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism” explains this precisely.
minus-squareubergeek@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoMust be the manual Lenin and Stalin followed… lest anyone forget that the USSR quickly, like within a year of the revolution, decided to be imperialist too.
minus-squarejagged_circle@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoI recommend reading Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of The United States
The strong economy is a result of theft. The US has always been a piece of shit.
theft and technology, i would say.
I guess, if you call smallpox and pistols and slavery technology
I’m not disagreeing but that’s a bold claim about the US economy. Please share your sources, I’d like a read.
Founded on slavery, and then you could argue that capitalism is inherently about theft. As someone else pointed out, banana republics.
Just Google “banana republics”
Lenin’s “Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism” explains this precisely.
Must be the manual Lenin and Stalin followed… lest anyone forget that the USSR quickly, like within a year of the revolution, decided to be imperialist too.
I recommend reading Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of The United States
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