freediver wrote on Aug 3
rd, 2022 at 7:04pm:
You didn't answer the question. Are you blaming all deaths due to starvation on capitalism?
No, I recognise a role (as did Deng**) for
capitalist self-interest in an economy.
**Late paramount leader Deng Xiaoping was the chief engineer of the 1978 reforms and introduced the concept of the
socialist market economy......a crime, according to Western neoliberal ideologues who bleat about 'unfair market practices'.
But the fact is after the collapse of the USSR, Western-style neoliberalism has become the dominant paradigm around the globe
except in China......and poor countries are paying the price in terms of starvation of c. 8 million people a year.
Quote:And is this some strange effort to make up for the CCP starving 50 million Chinese to death with communism?
No; it's recognition that Deng changed, but Western neoliberal market ideology did not.
Quote:So where are all these people starving because of capitalism western neoliberal free markets?
In all the poor nations of the world.