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[-] CubitOom@infosec.pub 3 points 8 months ago

As someone that went to public school in New York before national standardized testing changed the curriculum, I remember being taught in middle school history class the following:

  • the industrial revolution was a time of great innovation
  • it allowed for people to move outside of the city and commute to work
  • pollution was rampant
  • child labor happened all the time
  • there were almost no safety regulations
  • there were many many monopolies and that caused a lot of issues
  • workers have collective bargaining power and unions fought to correct a lot of these issues.
[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago
[-] Greenleaf@hexbear.net 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The catch is, it’s usually presented as “well that was in the past, capitalism is perfectly fine now”. It’s like when libs who are actually familiar with Marx agree with what he says about capitalism, but then say the analysis is no longer relevant since we made capitalism a lot better since then. Or highlighting racism in the past but implying that racism stopped being a problem after 1965, when racism was defeated legislatively (hooray for liberalism!)

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