• davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Since the beginning but not because that’s what capitalism is, it’s because the mercantilist lords wanted a rebrand when peasants started killing them

    That’s not what happened. It was the burghers themselves who revolted against the feudal lords. The peasants didn’t revolt against the burghers: some were uninvolved and I assume some aided the burghers against the feudal lords who owned the land they tilled.

    China having more inequality than Japan or South Korea also paints this

    It is true that China has billionaires. It is also true that China has raised 800 million people out of poverty, “the greatest such effort in history.”

    If a country decided to switch to communism, that elite rebrand would still happen.

    Do you see CPC members boating around the world on megayachts? The “elite” in China—if you want to call the democratically elected representatives “elite”—are not fabulously wealthy, despite the fact that, if they wanted to, they could literally print as many Yuan as they pleased and pocket it. The billionaires are capitalists, in the constrained amount of capitalism the Chinese state currently allows.

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      2 months ago

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

      Here’s a list of peasant revolts for you to browse through, take note of those through the 16-18th centuries

      Do you see CPC members boating around the world on megayachts? The “elite” in China—if you want to call the democratically elected representatives “elite”—are not fabulously wealthy

      As shown in proof above; China has bigger inequality than Japan and South Korea.

      China also has the second most billionaires in the world

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        This is just getting silly now.

        Here’s a list of peasant revolts for you to browse through, take note of those through the 16-18th centuries

        The fact that peasant revolts happened is neither here nor there. The point is that capitalism was borne of bourgeois revolutions against feudal powers and not of peasant revolts against burghers who were a product of mercantilism.

        As shown in proof above; China has bigger inequality than Japan and South Korea.

        Thanks for repeating yourself I guess?