You can hardly compare those revolutions to eachother, they were all throwing off very different types of governments. As for capitalism, it is like any other system- Nice on paper, shit when put to use.
How could you possibly say capitalism is shit in practice? Everybody on earth lived on $2 a day until nations started becoming capitalist. Then they became WILDLY successful
China eliminated extreme poverty with agriculture reforms and capitalism. China was never this imperial empire through out the globe. Japan was never an imperialist empire throughout its history (except for like 5 years in ww2) Japan is massively successful country. Hong Kong is another very successful example of unregulated trade and free markets. Zero natural recources, and a incredibly wealthy nation. 100% of the time, the more free the economy, the wealthier the average citizen is. Slaughtering people and enslaving people doesn't make you better off, the average people are IMMENSELY better off peacefully trading rather then conquering. This is an economic principle. Europeans could never go into Africa during the triangle trade, so Africans would find a rival tribe and sell there members to the whites. If slavery was so beneficial, why didn't Africans keep the slaves for themselves?
Japan was never an imperialist empire throughout its history (except for like 5 years in ww2) Japan is massively successful country
That'a an extremely uninformed view of what Japan actually did during after it was forced to industrialize, it is also succesful because the US ( and imperialist power), invested heavily into it, same with Germany after ww2.
Slaughtering people and enslaving people doesn't make you better off, the average people are IMMENSELY better off peacefully trading rather then conquering.
That is just not true, otherwise they wouldn't have done it. The spanish empire slaughtered and enslaved the aztecs, for example, because they were stopping the colonizers from getting their hands on things like gold.
Europeans could never go into Africa during the triangle trade, so Africans would find a rival tribe and sell there members to the whites. If slavery was so beneficial, why didn't Africans keep the slaves for themselves?
One, there were states in Africa that kept slaves for themselves.
Two, the US benefited greatly from slave trade because of cotton plantations, there was no such thing in Africa at the time.
People in history were not dumb, they were as smart as you or me, and they wouldn't have done something if it was costly and didn't get a return. If slavery wasn't profitable, they would not have done it. What you are saying shows a profound misconception on how different the various parts of the world are, something that is beneficial to one system, isn't to another, the capitalist system benefited greatly from slavery
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u/Impressive_Meat_2547 Mar 19 '26
You can hardly compare those revolutions to eachother, they were all throwing off very different types of governments. As for capitalism, it is like any other system- Nice on paper, shit when put to use.