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by simonh 3884 days ago
> ...mostly about forcing capitalism on nation states..

And these non-capitalist countries are?

All countries are capitalist. They may claim otherwise, but if the party that paid for the means of production makes a claim on the value of the produced goods, then they are capitalist. It doesn't matter if the party that provided the capital was a private citizens or a government. If the workers that produced the goods don't have sole claim on the value of what they produced, the system is capitalist. The only difference in the USSR, Maoist China or even North Korea is that the state tried to monopolize capital.