possibly one of the worst arguments I have ever heard in my life considering markets are what made them third world in the first place and the best examples of turnarounds are in socialist countries. Thomas Sankara, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh, literally every example of a third world country being exposed to a communist improves their previous situation. I figured I'd name drop Sankara because there's practically no argument that can be made against him because he was just so good and his existence pretty much disproves this goof's narrative
Edit: he replied with this
“ All of colonialism was done in the name of capitalism Yikes I'm done replying”
Seems like a real cop out
Second edit: seems to be a year 11 from terf island lmao which would explain a lot about the convenient ignorance of colonialism
Wait, but like, if Capitalism can help the third world, why isnt it helping it now?
Despite being under siege from Western imperialism, 20th century socialist projects still generally achieved superior results in measures of physical quality of life compared to capitalist countries when adjusting for levels of economic development:
In 30 of 36 comparisons between countries at similar levels of economic development, socialist countries showed more favorable PQL outcomes ( p < .05 by two-tailed t-test). This work with the World Bank's raw data included cross-tabulations, analysis of variance, and regression techniques, which all confirmed the same conclusions. The data indicated that the socialist countries generally have achieved better PQL outcomes than the capitalist countries at equivalent levels of economic development.
