I’m glad you answered in their stead. Obviously you’re the kind of person to steel man arguments to truly show their weaknesses and strengths. You’d never regurgitate boiler plate talking points from people opposed to the ideology.

Never look up how many famines have been overseen by capitalist countries btw. It’d make your comparison lack any meaningful difference. India was run by the east India trading company when they had the bengal famine after all. And don’t forget how the Irish “potato” famine happened. (The British made it a crime to keep any non potato crop for themselves).

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here's the main difference:

"Yes that happened, and it was bad. We shouldn't repeat those mistakes, though we do not have to abandon capitalism entirely."

It's a little different than "nuh uh, real capitalism has never been tried that was imperialism/colonialism. Real capitalism is only when everything is perfect forever under free market capitalism so if anything bad happens it was never real."

[–] TheDankHold@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Actually I bring this up because when talking about famines people love to downplay the strife caused by capitalists maximizing profit and socializing loses.

Ironically your last paragraph is a pretty accurate paraphrasing of the usual dialogue around capitalisms faults.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that's capitalism's version of Tankies. See why I don't like Tankies now? And Tankies even have the cult of personality thing I can't fucking stand too, they're just in essence Red Trumpers. Capitalists can as well, of course, but it isn't a prerequisite like it is for Stalinists or Maoists (I mean hell it's in the name lmao).