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  • ZeroHora@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlJust baffling
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    4 days ago

    No it’s not. He sets the scope as “all capitalist nations that have not been imperialised”, which is logical. How can an imperialised country be imperialist towards another?

    You are trying to include them in your argument.


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    4 days ago

    I’m not validating their claim, I’m debunking the shifting goalpost argument. They since the beginning of the argument points out that the trend happens in all developed capitalist nations minus the ones that suffers from imperialism.


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    It’s a trend observable in all capitalist nations. If you develop enough, the rate of profit falls, and so you need to expand outward to profit. This is the basis of imperialism, the carving out of the global south for profit. Across the west, this is a fact, even if it manifests in different ways.

    Those on the imperialized end cannot themselves really become imperialist, and the total capital to be imperialized is limited












  • You talking about the wars in the region? The wars waged by the Empire of Brazil? The Empire controlled by Portuguese monarchs that fled from Europe due to Napoleon.

    The Brazil’s constitution changed eight times since the Empire, the government changed I don’t know many times, the country Brazil is not the same as the Empire of Brazil.

    The majority of Brazilians hate the wars, only some right wing military praise the shit that happen during the time(the same military that controlled the country during the 80s)