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[-] KokusnussRitter@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 11 hours ago

I do not expect the US to have invested nearly as much money into infrastructure as they did into war, but I think it'd be nice to include it. The chinese spending on military as well.

[-] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 17 points 9 hours ago

you seem to be conflating all military spending with war spending. White i am not vetting the numbers, this doesn't include other military spending, like blowing up fishermen in the Caribbean etc

[-] deleted@lemmy.world 15 points 10 hours ago

Spending on military doesn’t equal to war costs.

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 43 points 13 hours ago
[-] HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 12 points 9 hours ago

Shareholders in weapons production specifically. You could have made construction company shareholders wealthy and at least you would have ended up with some useful things out of it rather than a bunch of dead people and creating a new generation that will hate you for good reason.

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Except a lot of construction companies are A) owned by the same shareholders and B) get filthy rich rebuilding what the weapons producers blew up and Congress get the inside trades and votes on who gets the no bid contracts. Black rock, vanguard and state street are the primary shareholders in almost everything too. It’s a big corrupt orobus

And we're not even counting Iran's war (which is apparently not a war) nor the consequences of it.

The US of Magastan are a blight and the sooner they fall the better for the world.

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[-] HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 8 points 9 hours ago

Just need a big red eye at the top of trump tower and the look will be complete.

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

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[-] herculeskan@lemmy.zip -1 points 9 hours ago

Comunism is superior than capitalismo

[-] arak@lemmy.today 12 points 9 hours ago
[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 hours ago

No? The US is controlled by private finance capital and runs its economy on the basis of world imperialism. Capitalists dominate the state and private property dominates the economy. China's state is run by the working classes, and the commanding heights of the economy are publicly owned. Secondary, non-critical industries are marketized in China for their progressive role in stitching together and socializing production, but this is not the driving force of the economy. Instead, it's there to facilitate the transition to higher levels of development in socialism:

Capitalism is not the presence of private property alone, nor is socialism the absence of private property. They are both determined by the principal aspects of the economy and the class in control of the state. Without analyzing this, it can be confusing to directly compare individual elements and thus we run into disarray.

[-] ttayh@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 hours ago

That's a cool table, where's it from?

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Thanks! It's from On the Three Stages in the Development of Socialism by Cheng Enfu, head of the World Association for Political Economy and high up in the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

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