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Originally Posted by elphenor
and the US grew its economy on slave labor, exploitatation of immigrants, extreme central planning from the government, military dominance
you don't get a rich country because capitalism is The Best and all that standard nonesense
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I agree. The US is the richest most powerful country due to conquest, slavery and being the benefactors of inheriting the global empire via ww2.
My point was on propaganda. Indoctrination. The fact that you can't admit the soviets didn't really provide a useful model for how to structure an economy is due to your indoctrination. You don't have to give up on communism to admit that. You just have to stop defending failed experiments while also paradoxically trying to disassociate those experiments with what true communism would look like.