minus-squareculpritlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down2·1 year ago There hasn’t been any anti-capitalist revolutions in the last 150 year. Maybe read a history book? I seems to recall the US losing a war to communists in the 1970s for instance.
minus-squareKusimulkku@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down3·1 year ago any I don’t think their point was that no revolution has happened but the revolution to change it all didn’t happen like he assumed
minus-squareculpritlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·1 year ago Marx didn’t consider capitalists holding the world hostage with nuclear weapons plenty of successful revolutions did occur though, just not in places under the control of the ‘west’ very chauvinistic view to hold IMO
minus-squareKusimulkku@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agoI mean the world revolution was already sorta stopped before nukes came into play. Maybe next time though, never say never
minus-squareZoboomafoo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down3·1 year agoThe US lost a war to Vietnamese nationalists that adopted the trappings of Communism in order to get materiel support from China. They rejected it, and China, as soon as possible
minus-squareculpritlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·edit-21 year ago Vietnam is a unitary Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist republic, one of the two communist states (the other being Laos) in Southeast Asia. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam Wer’re Sorry Try Again
minus-squareZoboomafoo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down3·edit-21 year ago The economy of Vietnam is a developing mixed socialist-oriented market economy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Vietnam That doesn’t sound very communist to me, and I’ve heard plenty of times that a mixed economy isn’t a socialist one at all. Or is that only when it’s a European country?
minus-squareculpritlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down2·edit-21 year ago the Revolution hasn’t happened conclusion first, then cherry picked the points in history that supported his conclusion you hear those self-aware wolves howling?
Maybe read a history book?
I seems to recall the US losing a war to communists in the 1970s for instance.
I don’t think their point was that no revolution has happened but the revolution to change it all didn’t happen like he assumed
plenty of successful revolutions did occur though, just not in places under the control of the ‘west’
very chauvinistic view to hold IMO
I mean the world revolution was already sorta stopped before nukes came into play. Maybe next time though, never say never
The US lost a war to Vietnamese nationalists that adopted the trappings of Communism in order to get materiel support from China. They rejected it, and China, as soon as possible
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam
Wer’re Sorry Try Again
That doesn’t sound very communist to me, and I’ve heard plenty of times that a mixed economy isn’t a socialist one at all.
Or is that only when it’s a European country?
you hear those self-aware wolves howling?