Comment on Blood for the Line God!
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 5 days agoIn capitalist states
With a very few exceptions that’s the whole world
Comment on Blood for the Line God!
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 5 days agoIn capitalist states
With a very few exceptions that’s the whole world
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Far more socialism in practice than you’re giving credit. Even setting aside the 1/6th of the global population and economy that is governed by the Chinese Communists, you’re neglecting the plethora of state managed economies across the Middle East (the Kingdoms of Jordan and Saudi Arabia, the Revolutionary Republic of Iran, the theocratic republic of Afghanistan) and the socialist state functions of more traditional capitalist countries - NHS in the UK, the Baltic State sovereign wealth funds, state owned companies like Petróleos Mexicanos and The National Copper Corporation of Chile.
Musk is the kind of creature that crawls out of the swamp only after you’ve turned too much of your economy to private interests. He isn’t a global phenomenon. If anything, his ejection from South Africa and the continued revolutionary anti-colonialism that continues to flare up in opposition to people like him all along the Global South should signal how much of the world isn’t welcoming to his kind.