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by roflyear 1113 days ago
Yes, we're much worse towards animals, and really the entire ecosystem, then we were even 100 years ago. Pretty wild.
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An effect of the establishment and growth of communism, subsequently its counterpart emergence of capitalism, and the growing culture of excess materialism ... called wealth.
I think you read that history book backwards.
Ok? My research on this is capitalism was never coined until Marxism was coined. Marxism is the predecessor to communism. Communism was taken up during the Bolshevik revolution. Then it was demonized.
Capitalism was happening before Marx described it as such.

And ‘wealth’ predates capitalism and mercantilism.

The term capitalism was never coined or used before Marxism. You could find ideals and concepts that were adopted by the capitalist movement such as laissez-faire. But these were independent concepts separately developed.
Technically correct, but capitalist and capital were both in use before Marx. In any case it’s certainly more correct that Marxism is a response to capitalism, rather than the inverse.