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Wtaf is this. You can thank the state capacity and communists of China for the poverty numbers , not whatever these dolts think liberalism accomplished. And they're gonna ignore the immiseration inflicted intentionally by those very same liberals upon the post USSR states and Yugoslavia?
And I'm just a simple country communist but , rhetorically speaking, I would probably not cite a year in the mid 2000s as a benchmark for low war deaths, even if it is technically true they don't cite anything so the claim is basically useless.
As for poor countries catching up with their extractors in the imperial core I just have to laugh. What do you think happens to your western import predicated economy if, say, the cobalt miners of Africa or the garment workers of Bangladesh , or the auto workers of Mexico all unionised and demanded the exploited portion of value for their labour? Or the states themselves at least took that portion in their hands instead of foreign companies. Let's count how many Washington bullets fall on their heads in the name of price stabilité
Leave it to the economist to engage in the most shameless rewriting of history.
Even the 2005 number is certainly bullshit. This was the middle of The Iraq War where the US was in the process of killing about a million people in Iraq alone. I'm sure the statistic is a "clever" accounting that refused to call the insurgency or US-killed civilians "state-based" or conveniently did not count those dying from the destruction of infrastructure and lack of necessities.
Liberals constantly lie.
If there was a famine in the USSR it is because Stalin used his big straw to drink all of the rain personally.
If there is an infrastructure collapse in a country the US invades, well that's just market conditions baby.
"WhY Do YoU HaTe ThE GlObAl PoOr?" -r/neoliberal
If you remove the USSR and the PRC from the calculation, world poverty was basically unchanged in the 20th century. Liberalism hasn’t does shit for the global south.
Yeah, I had a lot of eye rolling when reading this article