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Comment by Apocryphon

2 years ago

I mean, if you're going to make that kind of political argument you can claim that Western Europe's postwar prosperity and relatively strong welfare states are a by-product of America footing the bill for defense (plus the seed investment of the Marshall Plan).

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cholantesh  2 years ago

That, and surplus value extraction from the global south, yes.

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