• Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com
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    9 days ago

    Except the peasant classes did rise up many times, and were repeatedly betrayed by the petit bourgeois and pushed back down in order to establish capitalism more fully.

    Plus, lots of the benefits of capitalism that people felt were really using imperialism and colonialism to import benefits and export suffering - not an actual increase in overall comfort or “good”.

    Classical Marxist historical materialism is, honestly a load of bunk.