To attribute ANY scientific advances to “capitalism” or “communism” is completely absurd. NEITHER of those have anything to do with the advancement of science, which has progressed in every kind of society.
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2. No surplus of food and capital means no development and a nation one step away from famine.
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Achieving a surplus of food does not require capitalism, and never did.
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1. Yes, Ancient Egypt could create surpluses, but not all the time. You may be interested that the first strike in recorded history occurred in Ancient Egypt, by craftsmen responsible for tomb construction. Middle kingdom I think.
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Shortages happen under capitalism all the time, too. See: the entire third world
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Shortages do happen under capitalism. The best example is Greece. 30%plus fall in GDP, mass unemployment. But is capitalism responsible? In part, Goldman Sachs had a role, but so did Greek governments for paying people pensions at 50 and most of all for joining the Euro.
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Capitalism definitely didn’t hurt its chances, that’s for true The Euro is one of the many state-sanctioned effects of neoliberal capitalism.
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State sanctioned neoliberal, yes, capitalism no. Capitalism takes to much power away from the technocrats and they hate that. Even its creators admit it is a political, not economic project. Grab a country by its currency and the rest will follow!
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You can’t be “neoliberal” without being capitalist. Neoliberalism is THE ideology of global capitalism.
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Neoliberalism is something else entirely. Like the NeoCons, almost all of whom were former Democrats or even further to Left. Neoliberalism see everything as just cogs in a machine, lacking agency. Capitalism relies on that not being truen
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Capitalism has *always* been about turning everything into machines. Any other connotations the concept may have are cultural. Neoliberalism isn’t American. It’s been the core ideology of *almost* every world leader over the past 30 years. It’s an ideology of justification.
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