I mean, yes. But he’s implying that there are places where root causes are investigated publicly and changes are implemented. Are there even places on earth without racism? Is my view of the world too bleak?
You are adding a good perspective. Likely the person saying the thing in the meme is pointing out the flaws in the system that is in front of their face and therefore which they know to some degree better than others, though that is not to say that the grass may be equally or possibly even less green on the other side (or if it does appear to be greener, that it is not paint on the grass that makes it look so).
I think this is trying to tie into the idea that Eastern parts of the world have historically “focused” more on holistic than reductionistic thought patterns, but let’s not kid ourselves, the plight of the Uyghur people tells us all we need to know about whether or not racism is alive and well in that communist country.
And likewise the presence of socialism rather than capitalism did not halt the fall of the eastern socialist USSR.
Mostly it’s just rich people controlling the masses, almost everywhere you look.
So it’s not so much that this meme is incorrect, but rather that it would be far more so if it said like “The West (and the East too) is…” And yet the biggest counter-example to that might be the socialist countries in Europe, who ironically are generally considered to be located in “the West”, and yet I suppose they are not typical of most places in the West such as the USA, the UK, Germany, etc. Possibly the discovery of oil in some of them may change that, sadly:-(.
I mean, yes. But he’s implying that there are places where root causes are investigated publicly and changes are implemented. Are there even places on earth without racism? Is my view of the world too bleak?
You are adding a good perspective. Likely the person saying the thing in the meme is pointing out the flaws in the system that is in front of their face and therefore which they know to some degree better than others, though that is not to say that the grass may be equally or possibly even less green on the other side (or if it does appear to be greener, that it is not paint on the grass that makes it look so).
I think this is trying to tie into the idea that Eastern parts of the world have historically “focused” more on holistic than reductionistic thought patterns, but let’s not kid ourselves, the plight of the Uyghur people tells us all we need to know about whether or not racism is alive and well in that communist country.
And likewise the presence of socialism rather than capitalism did not halt the fall of the eastern socialist USSR.
Mostly it’s just rich people controlling the masses, almost everywhere you look.
So it’s not so much that this meme is incorrect, but rather that it would be far more so if it said like “The West (and the East too) is…” And yet the biggest counter-example to that might be the socialist countries in Europe, who ironically are generally considered to be located in “the West”, and yet I suppose they are not typical of most places in the West such as the USA, the UK, Germany, etc. Possibly the discovery of oil in some of them may change that, sadly:-(.
capitalism “can only accumulate by producing and moving through relations of severe inequality among human groups”, and therefore, for capitalism to survive, it must exploit and prey upon the "unequal differentiation of human value.
Thank you, for that quote.
I have always thought of the concept as:
Capitalism extracts maximum profits from the maximum suffering of the lower classes.