freediver wrote on Aug 3
rd, 2024 at 6:00pm:
Quote:The cultural advances they made.
Making cultural advances proves they lead the world economically?
Yes, as Islam did in it Golden Age ( eg in Cordoba), so with the Tang, inventing paper, type-printing and gunpowder.
Quote:Are you just parroting what you have been told to parrot?
No, unlike you I read history.
Quote:Are you trying to argue that the great leap forward was the only time the CCP killed millions of Chinese people?
No; indeed the US killed its indigenous inhabitants as well as its own in the civil war.
Quote:Or am I being to generous in assuming this is part of a cogent argument?
You being generous? An oxymoron, your whole ideology is
survival of the fittest, according to the "rights" of "free individuals".
So you look to history to condemn the CCP, when lately the CCP has established one of the world's most advanced, politically-stable societies, while the US is imploding.
Quote:When was the last time the US government killed 100 million of its own citizens?
Pro rata, in the civil war, and wars of extermination.
You better start looking at the present and future, if you want to avoid China outpacing the "free" West.
But you will face some interesting problems re the limits of
neoliberal free markets.....