-Ra- wrote:Washington Resistance Army wrote:
Millions of people still starve to death despite the capitalist world order. Your policies clearly play some hand in it cuz the USSR died decades ago and China has only recently begun any sort of real power projection.
You are creating a causal relationship that does not, for the most part, exist. You assume that the presence of poverty in the world is a direct result of capitalist policies, when it is not.
How on earth is it not? The imperialist exploitation of vast areas of the globe by capitalist empires has left billions in poverty; the structure of our political and economic system prevents resources which we have from being allocated equitably to help them. Capitalism is the prevailing world system, the flaws in resource allocation which occur are clearly a byproduct of it.
Nevermind the fact that under this so-called dreadful capitalist world order extreme poverty has declined to its lowest levels in history.
A phenomenon entirely attributable to our exploitation of fossil fuel energy reserves, rather than any particular economic system. For someone complaining about people inventing causal relationships out of thin air, you seem to be doing a lot of it yourself-- the fact that poverty is low is not necessarily a product of capitalism, nor does the fact it's lower than it has ever been mean that it could not be lower if we made different choices about how we structure our economies.
The presence of poverty under capitalism does not discredit capitalism. The same can actually be said for the presence of poverty under socialism.
And yet it seems to be one of your principal lines of attack against socialist regimes. I'm begging you for just a tiny crumb of consistency.