• CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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          19 days ago

          The rest of the world also did relatively great as well, especially towards the end of that time frame after colonialism and then the Cold War. You see lots of footage from Vietnam and Afghanistan, but only because “everything fine in Namibia” isn’t a headline.

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            18 days ago

            How are we defining rest of the world here because China, India and Africa make up nearly 50% of the human population and things were really not great, especially for the first 40 to 50 years after WW2.

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          19 days ago

          People really think this is the first time this is happening and how it wasn’t way way worse just some decades ago

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      19 days ago

      we’ve been in it since ww1. every “downtime” space between had simply been “cold war” and capitalism prepping for the next phase.

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            19 days ago

            That was a definite contributing factor, but obviously there was more to Nazism than that, or Neville Chamberlain would have been right. And Italy didn’t lose WWI or even stay on the same side through it.

            One side combined Communists and the traditional colonial empires Marx wrote about. The other was upstart Fascists blending capitalism with a kind of feudal logic.