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It doesn't make sense to say that British imperialism led to communism from capitalism, if the starting point without British imperialism was mercantilism.
by solidsnack9000 6y ago
It doesn't make sense to say that British imperialism led to communism from capitalism, if the starting point without British imperialism was mercantilism.
- boomboomsubban 6y ago>Only with the rise and victory of the Communist Party in 1949, the nationalist lore goes, could the original shame of military defeat and colonialism be redeemed
- solidsnack9000 6y agoThat's how the nationalist lore goes...but what makes it the truth?
- boomboomsubban 6y agoIt's part of the ideology that drove their actions. How would one even attempt to show the statement was true? Either way, the era called capitalist should be clear.
- solidsnack9000 6y agoThe question of whether British imperialism drove China away from capitalism is a historical question. Because the Chinese system was mercantilist before British imperialism, it isn't right to say that British imperialism drove China away from capitalism. If old ideology said that, it's incorrect, and we do the world a disservice by repeating it.