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Cuba, Chile, Colombia, Nicaragua, all these countries had to fight against US for democracy. US supported dictatorships in Argentina and Brazil (my country), and others. Honestly, you are neither the first nor the last child of the defeat of the revolution that comes to teach us how terrible your country was. Communism is not just Lenin and Stalin or russian thing.
https://www.amazon.com/Open-Veins-Latin-America-Centuries/dp/0853459916
I have some links to share with you:
https://eand.co/if-communism-killed-millions-how-many-did-capitalism-kill-2b24ab1c0df7
https://medium.com/@comradefinnegan/socialism-vs-capitalism-death-toll-d19b6187444c
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/26/communists-capitalism-stalinism-economic-model
http://guerrillaontologies.com/2014/05/attempting-the-impossible-calculating-capitalisms-death-/
There is also this brilliant paper by Anne Case (economist) and Angus Deaton (Nobel Prize winner) about how the capitalist system is causing the protruding fall of US working class' life expectancy, caused by suicide, OD and alcoholism.
There is also this book, Gore Capitalism (Original title: Capitalismo gore) written by Sayak Valencia that illustrates the cost that the third world has and had to pay to officially integrate the capitalist bloc, where flesh is (much times literally) profit.
And my favorite, Open Veins of Latin America (Original title: Venas abiertas de América Latina) by Eduardo Galeano, gives some actual and practical examples of how capitalism (firstly at it's primitive form, "metalism") endorsed slavery, mass murders, systemic violence and discrimination, officially approved by the catholic church.
Happy reading, comrade!
This book will explain all your questions comrade:
https://www.amazon.com/Open-Veins-Latin-America-Centuries/dp/0853459916
Check out Eduardo Galeano's Open Veins of Latin America. It's a classic
Not "right", but a different perspective -
I believe the Chinese mentality and some up and coming developing countries is like this -
The white Europeans and Americans got to exploit the world. The US control of Latin America via Banana Republics and anything else outlined in Open Veins of Latin America clearly point out the scale of the exploitation. Europeans colonized every country in the world at one point, but five. India has been exploited by the Bristish and clearly provided worse economic and educational outcomes due to colonialization.
The point is all these countries are thinking "Well the white man did it. Now I have this teenage white girl from Europe - Greta - telling me I suddenly need to take care of the environment? Fuck you. You got to enjoy all the riches and now want to take moral high ground?"
When you are on the come up you just want to get up. And getting up is not always accomplished with the most righteous means as we can see from European colonialization. Sure, other empires have killed more and conquered more. However, what is influencing the world the most is that recent European colonialization which was officially stopped by the USA in WW2 (afterwards the Philippines gained Independence among other things).
White or not - we Americans are privileged.
Privileged to speak English - the global language of science among other things.
Privileged to live in a 1st world country.
Privileged to have proper infrastructure in most places.
Privileged to have the largest military in the world you can join and be taken care of. Also, being in one of the only countries that glorifies the military even if they were pushing papers the whole time.
Privileged to be in a country with freedom of speech.
Privileged to peacefully protest unlike China that puts that down quick.
I could go on. But we have a lot more than these developing countries despite how much Reddit likes to complain about the USA. I cannot blame the Chinese or developing countries to use (what now seems like) unethical means (enslaving Africans to exploit resources for the Europeans in the Americas during European colonialization sounds way worse compared to whatever China is doing).
I am against it. But try to understand their perspective too. Essentially, check your privileged against theirs (or what they lack).
This Colombian thought the original Narcos had White Savior Syndrome. Like he said, Narcos have nuggets. Narcos Mexico gave more with the CIA moving guns to Nicaragua (that white dude captured the perfect refuse to assimilate take over California white CIA American dude btw) and the FBI gunning a northern Mexican pueblo.
Oh and the politics of problems disappearing on both sides. However, that is it. You are never going to get anything near something like the below link criticizing the USA on that show.
https://www.amazon.com/Open-Veins-Latin-America-Centuries/dp/0853459916
But yeah I feel like both were interesting no doubt.
And my dude y'all got stop with the number hate. Reddit just be like that. The pros are fine. I tried with the first con with an A. But the rest did not want to obey the new order!
>The hell does this even mean
You ever hear of colonialism?
On Africa: https://www.amazon.com/Europe-Underdeveloped-Africa-Walter-Rodney/dp/1574780484
This will likely get buried in the thousand of comments here, but this book is required-reading for anyone interested in the topic of American imperialism in Latin America.
The thing about involuntary interactions is that capitalism is the largely primary responisble for them. For instance, take food deserts, where in inner city neighborhood's food supply is at best limited to fast food, liquor and convince stores. Those who live in these neighbor are forced into involuntary interactions (buying shit food and getting fat/having health problems, as a result) because they (largely due to historic disproportionate distribution of resources) don't have the means nor the time to travel outside these deserts, nor do they have access to the capital required in order to create local alternatives. These deserts exist necessarily because there is little incentive in a profit-driven market economy to open nutritional food distribution locations in areas such as these.
This is just one example of the many ways in which capitalism is oppressive. For more, I suggest looking into Foucault, Debord, Butler, Singer, Hardt and Negri, and Marx, among others. There are literally libraries full of writings by some of the smartest and well-respected thinkers of the last 500 hundred years all devoted to various critiques of capitalism.
As a side note, capitalism as we know it would not exist if it were not for European colonization, subjugation and oppression of roughly 80% of the planets population. Marx writes in Capital that "“The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the beginning of the conquest and looting of the East Indies, the turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of black-skins, signalized the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production. These idyllic proceedings are the chief momenta of primitive accumulation"
From this point alone, I don't see how an economic system which in order to have begun, requires this primitive accumulation of wealth, and which requires that this distribution of wealth and resources be maintained, could ever be consider moral or ethical.
For more information on this process as it occurred in Latin America, please read The Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, by Eduardo Galeano, one of the most world renowned journalists of the 20th century.
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