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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

There hasn't been any anti-capitalist revolutions in the last 150 year.

Maybe read a history book?

I seems to recall the US losing a war to communists in the 1970s for instance.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

any

I don't think their point was that no revolution has happened but the revolution to change it all didn't happen like he assumed

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Marx didn't consider capitalists holding the world hostage with nuclear weapons

plenty of successful revolutions did occur though, just not in places under the control of the 'west'

very chauvinistic view to hold IMO

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

I mean the world revolution was already sorta stopped before nukes came into play. Maybe next time though, never say never

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The US lost a war to Vietnamese nationalists that adopted the trappings of Communism in order to get materiel support from China. They rejected it, and China, as soon as possible

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Vietnam is a unitary Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist republic, one of the two communist states (the other being Laos) in Southeast Asia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam

Wer're Sorry Try Again

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

The economy of Vietnam is a developing mixed socialist-oriented market economy

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Vietnam

That doesn't sound very communist to me, and I've heard plenty of times that a mixed economy isn't a socialist one at all.

Or is that only when it's a European country?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

the Revolution hasn’t happened

conclusion first, then cherry picked the points in history that supported his conclusion

you hear those self-aware wolves howling?