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@questionX12345 @TonyTozser @Ugo_KelechiPhD marx was categorically anti-protectionist as such measures separated the proletariat classes of nations from one another

@bot_shape @TonyTozser @Ugo_KelechiPhD Marx was morally against free trade. It looks like Cuba is living by communist principles.

It doesn’t have anything to do with the decades of crippling sanctions, blockades, political destabilisation, etc?

@SMGamesOne @TonyTozser @Ugo_KelechiPhD with countries sure, but helms-burton has something to say about that

@bot_shape @TonyTozser @Ugo_KelechiPhD Allow me to remind you that Cuba free trades with most of the world, including my country.

@RealSamPitts @LilPota2 @katewillett ok so the path to capitalism is: stability a sense of bonafide representation among the people public abundance of resources instead of hoarding and social trust/optimism i think we agree on a lot of things

I don't think it's that complicated. Communism is a raw power play. It only takes a small sociopathic 1% of the population willing to kill everyone who stands in their way to implement it. Whether is succeeds or not depends on how much support the existing power structure has. If the existing economic system is run by corrupt shitbags, When the Communists come they get more tacit support from the masses and fewer people willing to kill and die to protect the status quo. It'll never work in America because we have too much social mobility. Everyone who is capable of prospering in their merits is successful enough under Capitalism that we are more than willing to kill and die to protect the status quo. If the commies ever try to do a real Communist revolution in America that overwhelms the ability of the police to preserve law and order, they have signed their death warrants because every normie with a gun in this country will immediately kill them in the streets on sight.

The reason there’s trash in Havana is bc there’s an oil blockade and Cuba has to prioritize hospitals for fuel over trash collection.

@The_Emmo @columtyrrell why because they are

@columtyrrell Why are Irish accents funny? This is colonial shit wrapped up in bollox. Same fucking nonsense as laughing at 33 and a third while Brits talk like they are gargling Charlie’s balls. No one laughs at them. It’s the most base of “humour”

I’ve not seen anyone ever attempt multiple types of Irish accents. This shit is good. I approve of this shit.

@Starships52 @J45198198 @Mezptmez @c0mmandderr the post-renaissance proto-perk vs crack class divide

@J45198198 @Mezptmez @c0mmandderr Wasn’t coke in this era it was opium

These still exist. You're just not invited to them, like how you wouldn't have been back then 😭

@Mezptmez @c0mmandderr everyone was off cocaine and absinthe putting CANNONS in their orchestral music and you don't think that was a good-ass time?

@c0mmandderr Rich people don't know how to have fun cos wtf is this?

@RealSamPitts @LilPota2 @katewillett and just to explain why europe could transition into capitalism despite constant wars in the late-renaissance-early-modern period, the balance of great powers in europe was so carefully maintained that it prevented these upheavals, mostly to keep colonial projects going

@RealSamPitts @LilPota2 @katewillett in conclusion communism is a cope for nations that never stood a chance at reforming into capitalism, but it's not their fault at all. if anything it's our fault. check out the platt amendment and the US occupation of cuba if you want an example relevant to this discussion

@RealSamPitts @LilPota2 @katewillett two starving, limping dogs are still a threat to each other

@RealSamPitts @LilPota2 @katewillett alternatively, the western world was indisputably unipolar while both the major communist powers USSR and China were horribly devastated by WW2 by the nazis and japanese respectively. industrialised early capitalist europe was hardly a peaceful place

@RealSamPitts @LilPota2 @katewillett communism does not have a good track record but i can point out in a bunch of different ways how the transitional, under-developed and unstable state of russia at the time as a country was more to blame

@RealSamPitts @LilPota2 @katewillett there are more important factors like stalin being a shit commander in chief, them coming out of a revolution only 20 years earlier and ofc deciding to buddy up with the nazis and trusting the guys who won't stop saying 'kill all slavs' leading to barbarossa

@RealSamPitts @LilPota2 @katewillett russia definitely got the worst of it but the prime factor in their later economic outcomes was definitely having a benefactor in the USA. china was the closest thing the soviets had and in 1969 things got so bad they asked the white house if they could nuke them😐

@bot_shape @LilPota2 @katewillett Literally all of Europe had the same problem. The onky reason Russia had it worse is because their shitty Communist econony couldn't build good weapons and forced them to use meat wall tactics to beat Germany. Lend/lease from America was the only reason they survived at all.