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MedeaLysistrata posted...

you realize one of the claims of Marxism is that money makes more money, right? the USA is successful because it made a ton of money from slavery, and has basically been coasting on that boon ever since. don't believe me? then why are poor African capitalist countries still poor?

here are my main points:
-any economic system will be successful if it exploits people
-an economic system won't be as successful if it doesn't exploit people
-an economic system is more likely to succeed if the world order is built to support it
-an economic system will likely fail if the world order is not built to support it
-an economic system is more likely to succeed if it has ample time to develop and grow

Well you're quite obviously dead wrong about the reason behind the USA's success. Sure slavery helped us at the time, but to say we've been riding that wave for over 100 years and that we've somehow been able to exponentially increase not only our wealth, but our GDP since that time solely off of money made during slavery is laughably ignorant.

Basically claiming that the US owes its wealth to slavery is objectively incorrect and common sense is more than enough to prove that. As for your "main points" Idk what the actual point of that list is, so maybe scale it down to one point and actually prove that, and if at all possible make it actually relevant to the discussion at hand.

The23rdMagus posted...

I doubt that any society could "stick to the plan",

That doubt is very well founded and basically the point of this topic. Capitalism developed organically which is why it works. Marxism and Communism were pipe dreams planned out theoretically from the top down which is why they will never work.
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