• eatmyass [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Didn’t realize it was communism that continually extracted wealth from the global south for near 500 years, meddled in their politics constantly to benefit private interests, and kept them in a constant state of undevelopment for cheap labor and raw materials

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      1 year ago

      Didn’t realize it was communism that continually extracted wealth from the global south for near 500 years

      It might be a bit difficult task for communism to pull off, given how it’s about 200 years old.

      meddled in their politics constantly to benefit private interests, and kept them in a constant state of undevelopment for cheap labor and raw materials

      USSR wasn’t nearly as shitty as European countries were for their colonies, but they did do some shady stuff with their satellite countries in East Europe at least, quite notably Ukraine. Difficult to say how that would’ve went if they had been given the opportunity to do this for longer than the ~80 years they got before collapsing.