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  • @Fylkir
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    810 months ago

    That’s kinda historically illiterate. The reason people tolerated Capitalism in the first place was that it smashed old forms of oppression and replaced them with less bad forms of oppression.

    • prole
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      210 months ago

      Being marginally better than feudalism isn’t a very high bar.