[+] -8 points 9 months ago (1 child)

imperialism, state policy, practice, or advocacy of extending power and dominion, especially by direct territorial acquisition or by gaining political and economic control of other areas.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/imperialism

You know you can just look up these thing right?

Not taxing your citizens, is not imperialism. Luxembourg is not an imperialist country.

The process that you're describing is called free trade. As soon as the global south doesn't want to partake in this trade, they can stop. And Luxembourg wouldn't have anything to say on that matter.

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  • [+] -7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Y'know, I was expecting a word salad of being called an incel, instead this is just a word salad of calling everything a monopoly. Half of the things you point to here are governmental actions, not capitalism. Capitalism is an economic system, not an ideology, it doesn't control what the government should or shouldn't do. And none of it even relates to the topic at hand, which was colonialism.

    And financial oligarchies are 100% just a hallucination, prettied up in fancy words so it sounds like you're making an argument. You do not need permission from an oligarchy to make financial transactions.

    If the global north would stop trading with the global south, to "fix" this supposed exploitation, people like you would be the first to start crying about how an embargo on the south is preventing them from moving up the value chain in production. There is no logic here, just accusations. You have nothing to show but an attitude

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  • [–] -5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Private property alone doesn't make capitalism, by that logic the ancient civilzations of egypt and sumer would already be capitalist. Capitalism is a collection of ideas, from the right to own private property to freedom of association, none of which is compatible with slavery.

    Which is a big reason why the capitalist countries were the first to outlaw slavery.

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  • [+] -8 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Mate, even the majority of socialists disagree with this view, let alone someone who is critical of socialism.

    The USSR was a dictatorship full of nepotism and corruption, where you could get jailed for the dumbest reasons, ranging from being gay to practicing karate. None of these rules were established by workers and all of them were created by the bureaucracy.

    The workers were the people who ended the USSR

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