But it wasn’t capitalist and liberal in India and Ireland. You can be one thing at home and one another thing in your colonies
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Capitalism was major driving force behind colonialism. And “capitalism is awesome because it leads to famine in colonies of capitalist countries and not the capitalist countries themselves” is truly a sociopathic take.
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Hardly a democracy when only about 5% of people could vote
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I love the "AKSHUALLY the "bad" capitalist liberal democracies that are colonizers are bad and therefore don't count". He's literally wrong:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Lawrence_Island_famine …
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Imperial nations have no problems with letting people in their colonies starve to death especially if they don't behave. Pretty much every colonial power has done this including the Soviet Union by the way.
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Yes, but India and Ireland were not.
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"It doesn't count when you do it to dirty foreigners" is certainly a take, I'll give you that.
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This post is IRISH POTATO FAMINE ERASURE.
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Tired: No nations with McDonald’s have ever made war on each other. Wired: Whatever this pluperfect jiveaſsery by
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Also, measuring food distribution success merely via "frequency of famines" rather than including "persistent structural deprivation/hunger that falls short of acute crisis/famine" is a neat two-step.
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