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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Is liberal capitalism how you describe centuries of colonial rule in Asia, Africa and the subsequent wealth drains?

Are you sure you're not misattributing their success to capitalism and ignoring the centuries of colonial wealth that flowed to the EU nations? Whenever I mention this in a EU space or those with westerners I get heavily downvoted. It looks like Europe doesn't want anyone to remember their Dark Ages through colonial periods.

Europeans just don't want that closet of skeletons to be opened.

[–] zenitsu 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Are you sure you’re not misattributing their success to capitalism and ignoring the centuries of colonial wealth that flowed to the EU nations?

Are you sure you're not ignoring all of the countries that are dominating out there that didn't participate in colonial shenanigans and were even victims of them? Are Norway, Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, New Zealand, Ireland, South Korea, Taiwan, etc... ex-colonialist powers currently benefiting from the past profits of exploiting others? Tankies like to pretend the West only prospers exclusively from colonialism yet conveniently forget that the communist shitholes they simp for participated in just as much or even worse colonialism than the West (see: Soviet Union). The truth is liberal capitalist democracies are just better. Yes, we should implement many socialist policies, and many of these countries do. But to pretend that communism is a better path is just braindead ignorant childish thinking.