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People voted with their feet, statistically speaking, and a theory that doesn't explain it isn't usable. If there is a lesson here for followers of Marx, the a
by kubanczyk 6y ago
People voted with their feet, statistically speaking, and a theory that doesn't explain it isn't usable.
If there is a lesson here for followers of Marx, the ability to make jeans or coca-cola (i.e. whatever fad the lowest-denominator consumers want this month) is a very important characteristic of a system.
- ihm 6y agoThis leaves out the very violent wars (sometimes bordering on something like genocide [0]) that have been waged by the capitalist world against communism. [0]: E.g., a CIA backed government killed ~1 million people with connections to the communist party in Indonesia. https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/05/18/how-jakarta-became-the-codeword-for-us-backed-mass-killing/ https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/05/18/how-jakarta-became-...