Jest wrote on Sep 16
th, 2020 at 2:10pm:
Sprintcyclist wrote on Sep 14
th, 2020 at 5:44pm:
Quote:10. Rising living standards.
Capitalism has contributed to rising living standards and fall in absolute poverty. Since China and other countries of south-east Asia became more ‘capitalist and free market, their economies have grown leading to a rise in living standards and a fall in levels of poverty.
The so called private enterprise "Think Tanks"/"Institutes" (for which you should really substitute the words "Propaganda Cells") spend a mottza putting stats and graphs like this together for dissemination all over the web. And its very much like the stats and graphs you get from the Feminist Movement and Race Activist Movements. They selectively choose the factors which they say make out their case so that, for example, within a few days of the Covid epidemic surfacing they tell us that
Covid disproportionately hurts women/black people/Trans people. The other day I even saw an all female science study claim that
micro plastics in the Oceans disproportionately hurts women. Truth is self serving interest groups like the IPA make this sh*t up.
And most importantly note that the caption states "Capitalism has
contributed to rising living standards and fall in absolute poverty..." Of course you got to ask; What does "contributed" mean and more importantly again, which economic system was the other "contributor" in all this.China and India accounts for over half the worlds population & their socialist & mixed socialist economies are the major reason for bring their peoples out of poverty. Just imagine the level of poverty that we would have in China and India today if after WW2 China and India were neoliberal capitalist countries. The misery would be unfathomable to us
It is the wrong end of the stick you are hanging onto there, pal, rather desperately. You are completely wrong. There was famine and misery in both China and India - and everywhere else - while they were pursuing 'scientific socialist' and Marxist policies in the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s. Only when they turned away from 'scientific socialism' did they start turning things around. Socialism is a guaranteed failure, economically and culturally and socially.
Socialism is Orwellian Newspeak for 'we are completely fcvked, how do we get out of this godawful mess '. every evidence from history supports that assessment.
Show us successful socialism by way of disproving my point.