Message from @Seedle

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2017-07-08 15:26:02 UTC  

Indonesia? Malaysia? Japan with it's insane work hours?

2017-07-08 15:27:32 UTC  

None because they're all shitholes and they can be better under socialism.

2017-07-08 15:27:47 UTC  

Compared to your socialist utopia yes

2017-07-08 15:27:59 UTC  

I'd rather compare it to other countries in history

2017-07-08 15:28:19 UTC  

What socialist utopia?

2017-07-08 15:28:30 UTC  

It's quite literally the course of history

2017-07-08 15:28:31 UTC  

The one that has never been achieved by any socialist country

2017-07-08 15:28:40 UTC  

Uh, wrong.

2017-07-08 15:28:40 UTC  

Or can you point to one?

2017-07-08 15:28:43 UTC  

Yugoslavia.

2017-07-08 15:28:56 UTC  

Very poor compared to the west at that time

2017-07-08 15:29:01 UTC  

Very poor?

2017-07-08 15:29:08 UTC  

Yes

2017-07-08 15:29:16 UTC  

It had great relations with the East and West

2017-07-08 15:29:21 UTC  

Or did the western people flee to Yugoslavia?

2017-07-08 15:29:25 UTC  

Booming economy for a time.

2017-07-08 15:29:32 UTC  

People didn't need to flee lol.

2017-07-08 15:29:41 UTC  

Until the racism came

2017-07-08 15:29:48 UTC  

No but people do to Hong Kong, Singapore and the west in general

2017-07-08 15:29:59 UTC  

If it's a shining beacon people will go to it

2017-07-08 15:30:14 UTC  

Okay? That can depend on several factors. It doesn't mean they're great.

2017-07-08 15:30:20 UTC  

It really does

2017-07-08 15:30:27 UTC  

Why else would they come here?

2017-07-08 15:30:32 UTC  

Your point?

2017-07-08 15:30:34 UTC  

Western corporations fled to China to basically have slave labor wages

2017-07-08 15:30:55 UTC  

Because the chinese government promised no competition I imagine

2017-07-08 15:31:04 UTC  

I'll be back in a bit, like 15 min

2017-07-08 15:31:07 UTC  

No.

2017-07-08 15:31:37 UTC  

It's a second world country, no unions, good infrastructure and tons of workforce.

2017-07-08 15:31:52 UTC  

And you're telling me we should be promoting this for "freedom"?

2017-07-08 15:32:15 UTC  

Freedom certainly not for the hundreds of thousands of blue collar workers who lost their jobs in the 80s and 90s.

2017-07-08 15:54:22 UTC  

Why take China as an example when Hong Kong or Singapore are much more capitalistic?

2017-07-08 15:54:50 UTC  

And if you get to say that china is capitalistic than I can open up a can of worms with your socialists utopias all day long

2017-07-08 15:55:14 UTC  

Where was the paradise for the millions who starved under backwards retarded socialist policies?

2017-07-08 15:55:25 UTC  

Was there any social mobility in the socialist countries?

2017-07-08 15:56:02 UTC  

Face it, capitalism won in the end, sadly a lot of countries are now falling into the same trap of thinking the state should provide ever more services

2017-07-08 15:57:09 UTC  

And if you say that wasn't real socialism well then

2017-07-08 15:57:39 UTC  

It's simply the result of having that much power in the hands of so few, you only need one malevolent moron to take power to bring your people to starvation

2017-07-08 16:24:41 UTC  

@Timo))) now I don't really have time to engage with you, but I will quickly reply to something you asked me.
"If you're saying that a free market is not capitalism I don't know what to tell you
What economic books have you read that claim it isn't?"
I'd just like to talk about the statement that the free market or just market is capitalism. Simplifying it to this kinda falls apart when you look at some things. Fx, there were markets, arguably free markets before we had capitalism and some anti-capitalist movements have been market oriented, like market socialism. While not very popular, mutualism is likewise also a radical socialist free-market ideology.
If you wanna keep to your definition, then I'd ask you to explain to me what people mean when they say that the french revolution turned the society from feudalism to capitalism, because the main thing that changed sure wasn't

2017-07-08 16:24:44 UTC  

how free the market was

2017-07-08 16:28:10 UTC  

Never said it was exclusive to capitalism, just that to have capitalism you have to have a free market