I’m hoping this doesn’t start a fight, I’m just curious what the political orientation is of this community. I grew up in a liberal (in the American sense) family, and I identify now as a socialist, though a lot of the liberalism I grew up in has stuck with me, like interest in LGBTQ and women’s rights, environmentalism, etc. Wondering where people here land?

  • CyborgMarx [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I believe that if you were to take a random sample of humanity, wipe their memories and drop them on an alien world, capitalism would happen

    Let’s think about that claim a little more carefully, why didn’t the Romans, the Greeks, the Persians, the Chinese, the Japanese, the Arabs, the Sumerians, the Ancient Egyptians, the Babylonians, the Sumerians, the Maya, or the Inca develop capitalism

    Why did it take 5,000 years after recorded history began for capitalism to emerge if it’s such a “natural phenomenon”

    This was done in order to perpetuate and protect the status quo in the USA for geopolitical reasons, but is not necessary for capitalism to function

    You really don’t see the contradiction in your claim? Let me spell it out; the “status quo” of the USA IS capitalism