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Becoming..? The country founded on the principle that only landowners and capitalists should be represented democratically is becoming an oligarchy?

Only landowning or capitalist white men could vote and participate in politics…

Depends on the school of Buddhism sure. That’s true. Some don’t have anything resembling what we call God or even gods tho.

I know, but still, the oldest schools of Buddhism don’t have anything that would equate to what we in the west consider a god, or gods.

I know that in east asia, south-east Asia etc., there are schools of Buddhism that do have gods.

But Buddhism being in many ways a rejection of brahamical religion in north india/nepal, also rejected the idea of gods when it first started to develop. I think that’s pretty uncontroversial no?

Not non-religious, but Buddhists don’t believe in god 🤷‍♂️ it’s something

Yeah… you’re gonna have to do better than that. That article is almost entirely based on the Black Book of Communism, a known bullshit book filled with ridiculous numbers and “estimates”.

Like it includes Nazis killed in WW2 as “victims of communism”. And if those are the victims, good riddance in my books…

What an absurdly bad article. Pure drivel and propaganda, pure emotion without any real analysis.

Source? Never heard of this. They genocided ethnic minorities and instituted privatization, eroding worker rights?

They were at least partially the ancestors of modern native people.

Except no. We lived with them for over 10,000 years without them going extinct. When before we thought they went extinct right after we arrived, thus concluded we hunted them to extinction.

But if we lived with them for thousands and thousands of years, that is very unlikely.

Market value and value are different things. Value is how much a product is socially necessary, and how hard it is to produce. Market value then is what people end up paying for it in a free market. They are often different, but in aggregate for the whole end up being the same.

Capitalism really