Some of today’s far right is openly violent and undemocratic – and even in its less extreme forms, far-right populism is a profound threat. But that doesn’t mean it is just a re-run of history
Since the 1990s, the world has pursued an especially unrestrained form of capitalism. It has brought great benefits: millions of people have been lifted out of poverty.
Yeah, the UN admitted back in like 2006 that if you remove China (communism) from the equation, poverty is getting worse. And westerners in their glorious illiteracy and anti-intullectualism, still think that capitalism reduces poverty, the thing it creates. Amazing.
Except those millions were mostly in China.
Yeah, the UN admitted back in like 2006 that if you remove China (communism) from the equation, poverty is getting worse. And westerners in their glorious illiteracy and anti-intullectualism, still think that capitalism reduces poverty, the thing it creates. Amazing.
The UN poverty report from 2020 (Alston Poverty Report) also critiques the neo-liberal prosperity / poverty reduction narratives: https://www.srpoverty.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Alston-Poverty-Report-FINAL.pdf
Love how even this chart is stacked this way around which makes reading it harder.