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well, comrade, if you want to put that last bit of yours into something like perspective, you might take a look at actually existing capitalism and its glorious history and start thinking in terms of the destruction that particular expansionist mass-murdering ideology has wrought as well--after all, unless you are totally disengenuous about it, you have to factor in the entire history if colonialism from the 19th century, the development of modern warfare, world war i directly--it ain't pretty.
it is ludicrous to defend a liberal ideological position of capitalism as if it is somehow benign and only the ideologies that you designate as problematic are to blame for untoward human suffering. but i suppose there's suffering and then there's suffering. you know, the suffering that happens as a result of an economic ideology you endorse is less real than is the suffering engendered by political ideologies you do not. i understand, comrade: multiple weights, multiple measures.
to head off the obvious snippy response--it is not interesting to play the relative barbarism game. this is only to say that you do not speak from a clean position yourself.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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