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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

To be fair, it usurped feudalism, and it socialized & developed the productive forces, thus making industrial socialism possible.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On the other hand, it turns out that revolutions were possible in countries like Russia and China that haven't yet made a full transition to industrial capitalism.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good point. And China has taken advantage of capitalism’s better features than the USSR did, to good effect.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago
[–] Core_of_Arden@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Usurped feudalism? Nah, it really didn't. It just changed it to something like it, but far worse.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Both capitalism and feudalism are class societies, but the conditions of industrialization accelerated by capitalism have dramatically improved on feudal squalor. Life expectancy has dramatically improved the world over, and the conditions for collective ownership and planning are possible because capitalism paved the way for it.

Capitalism has come with its own atrocities, and in many ways workers are less obviously exploited but to an even greater degree, but is still a historical stepping stone as a progressive movement from feudalism, that which will be usurped by socialism.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It works for the people it's supposed to work for. The problem is there's only about 5 of them and they enslave the world.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago

They would've enslaved the world if China didn't exist.

[–] Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Unless Gemini missed any, my count is 4: the Srebrenica genocide in Bosnia (1995), the Darfur genocide in Sudan (starting 2003), mass killings of Hutus during the First Congo War (1996-1997) and the ongoing eradication of Palestinians in Palestine (starting 1948). The observant would recognise that this makes me 30, as the Rwandan genocide was months before my birth

[–] belastend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't forget about the Rohingya.

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org -3 points 1 year ago

Or about Xinjiang and it's uyger people

[–] stink@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Maya Genocide in Guatemala seems to have lasted until 1996