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1. Strypey (strypey)'s status on Sunday, 23-Sep-2018 09:23:50 UTC Strypey

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   • Mark Shane Hayden
   • pho4cexa
   • JC Brand

   @msh @jcbrand @pho4cexa I get what you're saying, but I'm not sure how useful these generalizations are anymore. China, Cuba, and Venezuela have very different systems, that emerged from very different histories, with very different sets of relations with 18th/19th C colonialism, and 20th C corporate globalization.

   • Strypey (strypey)'s status on Sunday, 23-Sep-2018 09:26:14 UTC Strypey

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     • Mark Shane Hayden
     • pho4cexa
     • JC Brand

     @msh @jcbrand @pho4cexa For example, China was never colonized by European powers to the extent that Venezuela and particularly Cuba were. Another example, Venezuela's current system began with an elected government and popular constitutional reform, while China's began with an armed revolutionary uprising and seizure of power, and Cuba's began with a guerrilla revolution loosely supported by the population in order to oust an unpopular capitalist dictator.