Laura Jedeed (Misanthrophile)

It's also undeniably true that countries like China and the USSR have perpetrated atrocities So have industrial capitalist nations. See: colonialism There are some leftists who think the USSR was cool. We call them tankies and no one likes those guys

Leftists mostly want to implement either anarchist or communist ideas in ways that DON'T kill millions of people. Use them to create a more just world It's not an easy thing, forging a path to something better. And certainly there have been catastrophic failures. But I have hope

The trouble is, our current system has inequality built-in There has NEVER been a capitalist society that hasn't existed concurrently with--and been sponsored by--plunder. American success depended on land stolen from indigenous people

The European industrial revolution was fueled by colonialism: cheap resources acquired by force. Today, our cheap products come from slave labor, both from places like China and our own prisons