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- reagansrottencorpse ( @reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml ) 3•58 minutes ago
I think it’s fucking bullshit they murdered Fred Hampton and got away with it.
- Revan343 ( @Revan343@lemmy.ca ) 2•53 minutes ago
True? Yes.
Funny? Not really.
/c/depressing would be a better fit
- Dessalines ( @dessalines@lemmy.ml ) 14•2 hours ago
- TheFrirish ( @TheFrirish@jlai.lu ) 2•20 minutes ago
Excuse me, may I deposses you of this image? It would be a fine addition to my collection.
- M1nds3nd ( @M1nds3nd@lemmy.ca ) 4•2 hours ago
Rest in power. Fuck the Chicago PD.
- Realitaetsverlust ( @Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zip ) English1•2 hours ago
Dunno poverty rates have dropped immensely since the introduction of capitalist systems.
- Cethin ( @Cethin@lemmy.zip ) English5•55 minutes ago
If you’re comparing things to what existed before capitalism was coined, sure. Yeah, we’re doing better than literal fudalism, which was still a capital and hierarchy based system. No one is asking for a return to fudalism though! It very easy to say “we’re doing better than them so we need not try to improve.” It’s not helping anyone though, except those who benefit from maintaining the status quo.
- Dessalines ( @dessalines@lemmy.ml ) 14•2 hours ago
No, most of the world is capitalist, and most of the world is poor. Only a minority of imperialist capitalist countries, primarily in europe and the US, have wealthier populations due to hundreds of years of colonial exploitation.
In fact world poverty is increasing, if we exclude China and it’s poverty eradication efforts.
- Realitaetsverlust ( @Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zip ) English1•2 hours ago
The world was significantly poorer and wealth was much more concentrated before
- BeigeAgenda ( @BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca ) 4•6 hours ago
I agree, white capitalism is so last year, get with the latest fashion and use black capitalism.
- ceoofanarchism ( @theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English7•7 hours ago
Capitalism can’t help anyone out of poverty at least not without exploiting masses.
- Digital_man ( @Digital_man@lemmy.one ) 27•10 hours ago
White capitalism is what made black people slaves and pushed them into poverty.
Perhaps we need new ideas that help everyone.
- PowerCrazy ( @PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml ) English32•10 hours ago
White capitalism
This is just called capitalism.
- Empricorn ( @Empricorn@feddit.nl ) English9•9 hours ago
I mean, it gives deference to rich people, but when it was legal to discriminate against POC, they had a massive disadvantage in pretty much every aspect of their lives. Not perfect, but much improved now…
- Geometrinen_Gepardi ( @Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz ) 5•8 hours ago
Africans enslaved and sold other Africans by the millions for centuries before white people arrived on the continent. Though they certainly made it worse when they did.
- Cethin ( @Cethin@lemmy.zip ) English2•47 minutes ago
People enslaved their opponents in war for essentially as long as humans have existed, until we decided slavery was an evil we should avoid. However, this was not generally chattel slavery. Usually their offspring were not slaves and they were not bread to create more slaves, like livestock.
This is a good read if you want to learn more.
- basmati ( @basmati@lemmus.org ) English2•2 hours ago
I’m not sure you have enough of a historical framework on population to make the claim you’re mindlessly repeating, but I appreciate that you “people” out yourselves so readily so normal humans can avoid you. Good luck on truth social or Facebook or x I guess.
- Boomkop3 ( @Boomkop3@reddthat.com ) 9•9 hours ago
Capitalism has race now? Or are they suggesting to use race as a product?
- GarbageShootAlt2 ( @GarbageShootAlt2@lemmy.ml ) 9•9 hours ago
“Black capitalism” is historically the approach of some African American* communities and individuals to resist racial oppression by embracing capitalism and out-competing whites in it, essentially. This met its most famous manifestation in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which developed a wealthy black capitalist class, but neighboring white towns got mad at this and basically leveled a good portion of the town and killed many people. For reasons beyond me, some liberals hold up Tulsa as some wonderful thing and proof that black people should just be more engaged in capitalism, and they ignore how the experiment ended.
The most famous “black capitalism” proponent is the Jamaican-born American Marcus Garvey, who some Rastafarians worship as a prophet. To poison the well immediately, he was supported by the KKK in his projects to send African Americans “back to” Africa, because their ideologies and aims of ethnonationalism broadly aligned.
*It’s mostly an American thing, but it’s not exclusively an American thing by any means
- Boomkop3 ( @Boomkop3@reddthat.com ) 3•8 hours ago
So… corporate collusion between black businesses owners? I suppose that would equalize the market a bit if they do manage to kick down corps like amazon
- averyminya ( @averyminya@beehaw.org ) 7•9 hours ago
Capitalism has always had a form of race, but it’s a social hierarchy.
Class.
It has always been class. The lie that gets sold to middle America is that one day, they too will be of a higher class.
- thefartographer ( @thefartographer@lemm.ee ) 8•10 hours ago
I mean, it helped bolster rationale for enslaving black people. It’s fair to say that capitalism tips the scales, steals your car, and then runs over your neighbor before disappearing with your spouse and your dog/cat.
- GarbageShootAlt2 ( @GarbageShootAlt2@lemmy.ml ) 7•9 hours ago
It didn’t just bolster the rationale for enslaving black people, it largely executed the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Those boats weren’t publicaly owned, and neither were the captured slaves, the slavers were entrepreneurs and their employees doing business.