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by ghost_here 1669 days ago
There are two options, either you live in a country that wasn't impacted by communist regime and avoid history lessons or you benefited from such regime.

Capitalism isn't perfect but it is not a regime and people are not killed because they disagree with capitalism. There's hardly anything to compare.

And your argument about indigenous Americans is invalid. You think there was capitalism in medieval Europe?
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dane-pgp 1669 days ago
> people are not killed because they disagree with capitalism

Perhaps you are the one who avoided history lessons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d'%C3%A9tat#...

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derekjdanserl 1669 days ago
What do you think a “regime” is?

FYI, it’s nothing but a scare term and capitalism absolutely has its regimes. As Noam Chomsky is famous for reminding us, the American government is the worlds largest terrorist organization.

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slater 1669 days ago
> You think there was capitalism in medieval Europe?

You'll probably move the goal posts, but yeah, the Fuggers and de Medici and all the other banking families of that age would like a word with you.

Edit: Also, you keep mentioning "regime" as if it's a bad word. It just means government[0]

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/regime#Noun

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