I was thinking about this comic recently. In an individual sense we all agree it's absurd to just think someone can exist today without engaging in capitalism. Capitalism rules the world right now. But I was wondering if you could apply it to a larger scale against the leftwing people that say China or Cuba or Vietnam aren't really socialist. Sure, they've accepted market reforms, surely you know what the US would do if they didn't, how far they could get with even more sanctions and lack of trade with every other country. Yeah, they engage with the system that controls everything, you are very smart, but the alternative is economic (if not also regular) annihilation.
I was thinking about this comic recently. In an individual sense we all agree it's absurd to just think someone can exist today without engaging in capitalism. Capitalism rules the world right now. But I was wondering if you could apply it to a larger scale against the leftwing people that say China or Cuba or Vietnam aren't really socialist. Sure, they've accepted market reforms, surely you know what the US would do if they didn't, how far they could get with even more sanctions and lack of trade with every other country. Yeah, they engage with the system that controls everything, you are very smart, but the alternative is economic (if not also regular) annihilation.