just_another_person@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 15 days agoOur allies may never forgive us. Anti-American forces, on the other hand, are giddy.www.rawstory.comexternal-linkmessage-square94fedilinkarrow-up1487arrow-down110
arrow-up1477arrow-down1external-linkOur allies may never forgive us. Anti-American forces, on the other hand, are giddy.www.rawstory.comjust_another_person@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 15 days agomessage-square94fedilink
minus-squarejagged_circle@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·15 days agoThe strong economy is a result of theft. The US has always been a piece of shit.
minus-squareThePyroPython@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·15 days agoI’m not disagreeing but that’s a bold claim about the US economy. Please share your sources, I’d like a read.
minus-squareNuclearDolphin@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·15 days agoLenin’s “Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism” explains this precisely.
minus-squareubergeek@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·14 days agoMust be the manual Lenin and Stalin followed… lest anyone forget that the USSR quickly, like within a year of the revolution, decided to be imperialist too.
minus-squareT00l_shed@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·15 days agoFounded on slavery, and then you could argue that capitalism is inherently about theft. As someone else pointed out, banana republics.
minus-squarejagged_circle@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·14 days agoI recommend reading Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of The United States
minus-squaregandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·13 days agotheft and technology, i would say.
minus-squarejagged_circle@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·13 days agoI guess, if you call smallpox and pistols and slavery technology
The strong economy is a result of theft. The US has always been a piece of shit.
I’m not disagreeing but that’s a bold claim about the US economy. Please share your sources, I’d like a read.
Just Google “banana republics”
Lenin’s “Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism” explains this precisely.
Must be the manual Lenin and Stalin followed… lest anyone forget that the USSR quickly, like within a year of the revolution, decided to be imperialist too.
Founded on slavery, and then you could argue that capitalism is inherently about theft. As someone else pointed out, banana republics.
Parenti.
I recommend reading Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of The United States
theft and technology, i would say.
I guess, if you call smallpox and pistols and slavery technology