Marxism, is it true? Ben and Jerry Edition

it's funny to think that liberals consider this sad because "we're killing each other more than our enemies do!"
and i'm just sad because there isn't a war that has turned into a nice meatgrinder to kill americans in masses

They are.

Because of the New Deal and the Great Society you fucking brainlet. ND transformed almost over night some of the poorest regions in the country. The Tennessee River Valley might as well have been in the third world, but the TRVAuthority's massive project of damming it up, building dikes and levees, and electrifying the region completely transformed it.

The period after WW2 saw a massive shift in wealth to the working class, who enjoyed the benefits into the 70s, and then it's all downhill from there as business conspires to sheer America of its "excessive democracy."

Huge swathes of the US are basically in ruins, and the only reason you aren't seeing people in massive Hoovervilles is because of the spread of issuing credit cards to literally anyone and everyone, whether they need them or use them or pay them off or even understand them.

Wew, a nation of debt slaves, great success‼

I don't want vague theory I want metrics and specifics. Ever thought of that?

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so you're still using money as a means of exchange and earning profits and you can do this without exploitation or friction? Explain give me specifics/metrics.

Most American workers are good, it is the ruling class that is bad. Maybe that's not edgy enough for some people around here. All in all, I hope for the defeat of American imperialism but have no desire to see me or my fellow coworkers get sacrificed for capitalism.

I have though. What are you confused about?

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The massive increase in poppy production has contributed majorly to the growing heroin epidemic in the US. That's aside from the trillions of dollars wasted not just on the wars, but incompetently trying to rebuild these countries, knowing nothing about them or the circumstances of the people living there. The US builds bridges and schools just to bomb them and rebuild them again. Their "plan" to move Afghan farmers off of poppy production has been an unmitigated failure, with the incompetent American military and intelligence forces basically working as hit men for regional drug cartels.

You'd have to look awfully hard to find an American removed from the effects of their presence in Afghanistan and Iraq, and now that Iraq is electing Communists again, I'm sure Cheney is getting hard at the thought of all the money he's going to make flattening it again, and how much more he's going to steal when he has to "rebuild" it.

You're a fucking idiot.

Read Marx and fuck off.

Marx also states that industrialization increases both the quality of life of the proletariat and the bourg. But that latter increases at a faster rate, this can be proved by the always increasing global wealth inequality. Guess who is more industrialized? Africa or the US?
"A house may be large or small; as long as the neighboring houses are likewise small, it satisfies all social requirement for a residence. But let there arise next to the little house a palace, and the little house shrinks to a hut. The little house now makes it clear that its inmate has no social position at all to maintain, or but a very insignificant one; and however high it may shoot up in the course of civilization, if the neighboring palace rises in equal or even in greater measure, the occupant of the relatively little house will always find himself more uncomfortable, more dissatisfied, more cramped within his four walls." - Wage labour and capital chapter 6

The american bourgeoisie is way richer than the african one and as said there is comonly no african bougeoisie just the first world one.

Besides many if not most of the QOL advanteges first world countries were hard fought by the working class and socialist movementes of late 19th and early 20th century