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I searched the article and the word capitalism appears 13 times on it so it's hard to see how it doesn't refute your own claim. Also capitalism implies imperial

• gridlockd 7y ago
  Maybe you should have read the article instead, or at least the introductory paragraph, which states: "Imperialism was both normal and common worldwide throughout recorded history, the earliest examples dating from the mid-third millennium BC, diminishing only in the late 20th century." I am not aware of any capitalists or corporations predating the Iron Age, but perhaps you can enlighten me there. > Also capitalism implies imperialism, not the other way around. I would disagree that capitalism implies imperialism, but let's put that aside. My claim was exactly that imperialism doesn't imply capitalism, so I guess we agree on that? Non-implication is not exclusion, mind you. The Soviet Union was imperialist, but not capitalist. Having said, that, I'm sure there is a fruitless debate to be had with those Trotzkists that would claim that the Soviet Union was imperialist, capitalist and fascist[1]. [1] https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-3/iwk-ussr.htm https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-3/iwk-ussr.htm