And how many billions around the globe struggle to secure food/water/housing/medicine/electricity/etc despite the progress of technology? Right now we could produce enough for everyone on the planet; instead, hundreds of millions live in abject poverty, for generations, because our entire productive capacity is organized around profit instead of community need.
If we stop and tally the unnecessary deaths of those who succumbed to famine, homelessness, preventable disease, war, US imperialism, etc. we will see that the death toll of capitalism is immense.
That really has nothing to do with the comparison at hand between the refusal to pay snap benefits and the massive famines of the 20th centuries that the Stalinist governments created.
But sure, American imperialism bad. It’s a bit harder to measure all of these separate factors though, and it doesn’t make this campist meme any less dumb.
It’s fine to discuss one thing at a time, but there is a broader point being made in this post. The missteps of socialism are always taken to show that it could never work, but capitalism is failing and has failed the vast majority of us for hundreds of years now.
And how many billions around the globe struggle to secure food/water/housing/medicine/electricity/etc despite the progress of technology? Right now we could produce enough for everyone on the planet; instead, hundreds of millions live in abject poverty, for generations, because our entire productive capacity is organized around profit instead of community need.
If we stop and tally the unnecessary deaths of those who succumbed to famine, homelessness, preventable disease, war, US imperialism, etc. we will see that the death toll of capitalism is immense.
That really has nothing to do with the comparison at hand between the refusal to pay snap benefits and the massive famines of the 20th centuries that the Stalinist governments created.
But sure, American imperialism bad. It’s a bit harder to measure all of these separate factors though, and it doesn’t make this campist meme any less dumb.
It’s fine to discuss one thing at a time, but there is a broader point being made in this post. The missteps of socialism are always taken to show that it could never work, but capitalism is failing and has failed the vast majority of us for hundreds of years now.