Those who remember Monty Python’s Life Of Brian will be familiar with the line “What have the Romans ever done for us?” followed by the recitation of roads, laws, plumbing, a supply of potable water, etc.
So whenever some stupid Marxist [redundancy alert] suggests that eliminating capitalism will help the Pore & Starvin, we should use one of their own arguments against them by saying: “So really, what you want is for 80% of the world to live in poverty, again?”
But logic has never been a particular strength of the Left, especially when it contradicts dialectic.
If you set the start farther back – say 1750 – the starting poverty rate was likely between 80% and 90%.
Well, the stupid Marxists (just as you say) are the ones who look at something in real life and ask themselves, “I wonder how the theory says this should work?”
I commented that the reduction from 42% to 10% from ’81 to ’15 coincided with GOP Presidencies of from ’81 – ’92, and again from ’01 – ’09. … it went right over the heads of many on that thread.
“They would rather that the poor were poorer, provided that the rich were less rich.”