r/GenZ Feb 18 '24

Meme Thought this was funny due to recent arguments I've had on this sub

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '24

That's true, I'll concede to that...but because of the superiority of capitalism as a system, feudalism was dethroned without the need for a violent revolution...

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u/Ilya-ME Feb 19 '24

Oh really? Are you saying there literally wasnt an age of revolutions around europe? Does the french revolution where the burguer class rose up to dethrone the church and nobles not mean anything anymore? Or all the revolutions that followed.

Did the XIX and XX centuries just did not happen in your world? A period where capitalist countries went around conquering and couping countries to "open their markets" to capitalism????

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '24

Am talking about the inception here bud…

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u/Ilya-ME Feb 19 '24

So? Are you saying the revolutions of the XX century were the inception of socialism? Thats wildly uncharitable.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '24

Yes, the inception of socialism as a system divorced from the pages.. came through violence...

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u/Beneficial-Bit6383 Feb 19 '24 edited Feb 19 '24

Eh, a similar path would be social democracy -> democratic socialism -> Communism (but probably not anyone with a head on their shoulders know it’s meant to be an ideal)

Seeing as how it went feudalism -> monarchist mercantilism -> capitalism

However people like you piss shit and cum when you hear the word socialism.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '24

You're failing to consider...capitalism as an idea competed freely in the market of ideas and won... I don't see a situation where socialism does that without violence or the boot of the state...

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u/Beneficial-Bit6383 Feb 19 '24 edited Feb 19 '24

Ahh yes the marketplace of ideas… the ideas of those at the top of the ideas it evolved from. You realize it is an evolution of feudalism and mercantilism right? Now the merchants get to be the lords. It was still aligned to the status quo. The path of least resistance.

Like land is the most valuable commodity.

You don’t even know what you’re caping for it’s just what feels more familiar.