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Orsino

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7. Capitalism is always failing somebody.

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Thu May 31, 2018, 02:03 PM

May 2018

By definition it's the accumulation of resources in the hands of the few. The deprived become inconvenient, and every fascist dreams of simply disposing of some segment of the population, thinking that everything will be better without those people. They don't imagine that one day they too will be numbered among them.

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Dare we call it genocide? [View all] Tommy_Carcetti May 2018 OP

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It fits! Sophia4 May 2018 #4

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Article II of the 1951 UN Genocide Convention: Tommy_Carcetti May 2018 #5

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Capitalism is always failing somebody. Orsino May 2018 #7