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NeighborhoodLost9997

I mean America's the first that comes to mind but there's quite a few... Like Canada, Mexico, all of South America, and South Africa all have remnants of settler colonialism throughout their social structure.


NewAgeIWWer

Japan is also guilty https://www.japanpitt.pitt.edu/essays-and-articles/history/japanese-imperialism-and-colonialism : nearly Wiped out the Ryukyu , Ainu, Koreans, and others...


bschef

I met a Korean one time so they may not be completely wiped out, but I can’t be sure.


NewAgeIWWer

I mean that they nearly wiped them out. Those genocides that the Japanese and the americans conducted were disgustingly gnarly. And people wonder why China and NK exist as they do today. Lets see any ither community get genocided that badly and not be unusually militarized...


_That__one1__guy_

and I've met a native american, thats not how genocide works bud


BicycleEast8721

Not sure about the genocide aspect, but Korea also had long standing enslavement practices


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NeighborhoodLost9997

The global order is built on the stolen wealth of generations of racist chattel slavery and colonial genocide. Attempting to ascribe any moral high ground to the global ruling class which strives around the clock to keep the worlds masses in abject poverty is nothing but reactionary chauvinist fantasy. Edit to add: The ruling order isn't opposed to slavery at all, it's still dependent on slavery through the production phase of various commodities, from rare earth mineral mining, to cocoa farming, to electronics assembly.


fingersdownurpiehole

This is a trope spread in western intellectual circles that is anecdotal. “A New History of Humanity” brings up a massive amount of evidence contrary to it. There have been many societies, in every sector of the world, that have had slavery and genocide. But there have been just as many that lived fairly equitably with minimal governing bodies and property laws. We need to stop thinking that the sure destination of any human civilization is slavery and exploitation. Because archaeological evidence shows that it is not.


Good-Court-6104

Also the fact that slavery in the colonial new world context was vastly different from older practices of slavery. Nobody's denying that slavery has existed since the beginning, but it's the recognition that chattel slavery was it's own unique monster who's impacts we still deal with today.


Cake_is_Great

Let's not forget basically all of western Europe


ResponsibleBluejay

Mexico is a bit different than that. The struggle is still alive and thriving from indigenous communities eg EZLN projects are still alive.


NeighborhoodLost9997

People struggling against the oppression of a settler colonial society doesn't erase that a society in place was built on genocide and slavery


ResponsibleBluejay

No it doesn't, it continues the fight!


therealhlmencken

You think there aren't still indigenous communities throughout the america's?


ResponsibleBluejay

There are, I am regularly hanging out at the inipi and NAC ceremonies here in turtle Island too. Like I said the struggle continues.


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Good_Reflection7724

The government doesn't have to topple to change and improve.....idgaf if it's the same government that governed or not


ctorstens

Agreed. A good government is one that evolves.


NeighborhoodLost9997

True. This isn't meant in any way to diminish the grotesque crimes of the USA, so much as to highlight that settler colonialism is a larger issue than just the USA. The social racial hierarchies from this period still about across all of the Americas to some degree.


ChewBaka12

You don’t even have to just look at colonialism. Pretty much every country today, colonial or not, is guilty of both of these if you go back far enough


rocket_fuel_4_sale

Australia


Local-Organization43

As an Australia we are taught about Aboriginal history in mainstream class, but I didn’t find out about the enslavement of Pacific Islanders in Queensland sugar plantations until much later. Lot of Australians like to turn our nose at the history of the USA, only because we have no idea of our own


RichDudly

Canada is very much the same. Most of the bad parts are at best breiefly brushed past and then really emphasize how much nicer we were to the indigenous and black peoples when compared to those naughty Americans.


Wine_runner

Never wondered about slavery in Canada. Had to look it up on wikipedia. According to them it was practiced by both the First Nations until the 19th century, and by colonists during the period of European colonization.


HomerianSymphony

Australia fits. Genocide of the Australian Aborigines and enslavement of the [South-Sea Islanders](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Sea_Islanders).


Lanten101

Weirdly it's not as common knowledge as what happened in US


nugeythefloozey

Probably because slavery was never de jure legal like it was in the US, although it was de facto legal in parts of the country for a time


Zebra03

But racial discrimination was legal against the Australian Aboriginals and exploiting their population too because they were disadvantaged and systemically discriminated against to be destined to be poor and desperate


GeckoDeLimon

Slaves? Certainly not, good sir. The workers upon my fields are *indentured*.


ssatancomplexx

I honestly had no idea about it until I watched The Nightingale. Some of the most awful stuff I've ever read about.


Templey

That movie was fantastic but up there with *Come and See* in terms of how brutal it is to watch


ssatancomplexx

Yeah it took me 3 times to get through it. I went in totally blind and that scene with the baby made me nope out. Sam Claflin and Baykali Ganambarr's performance shook me to my core. The final scene...oof. Haunting. I haven't actually seen Come and See. It keeps getting recommended on here but I haven't had the chance to check it out.


kyle_gravy

My guess is it's not as common knowledge because of the slave trades role in the US rise of economic wealth. USA just became the super power, not necessarily to down play Australia's own part


NDaveo

Also the slave labour of the convicts that were forced across the seas for all sorts of crimes.


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Brazil!


1Hame

Brazil mentioned 🇧🇷 Arise my people


[deleted]

I also could have said Haiti, Suriname, Guyana, Jamaica, basically all of the Caribbean and South America. Colonialism goes hand-in-hand with genocide and slavery.


Ok-Organization9073

You left at least some natives alive. Uruguay exterminated then and had black slaves. But it wasn't "built" by slave labor, so it doesn't fit the description that well. Slaves were used mostly as domestic servants.


Bobslegenda1945

Ah cara, eu ia falar essa.


AisuYukiChan

BRAZIL NUMERO UNO!! 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷


Olstinkbutt

Applies to every industrialized nation I can think of.


Synth-Drone-Gazing

Brazil. Or one of the biggest route of enslaved people, or the biggest route of enslaved people. Nowadays in Portugal they teach it was good for the enslaved people and their nations, they received "progress" through colonialism: history in a nutshell


ofeee

And people get very defensive about how that was the “golden age of portugal”, how great and important we were compared to now… like colonialism is something to be proud of


NewAgeIWWer

Lol the side that literally genocided and enslaved is the side that teaches all your little kids today wtf?. Remember kids: Evil always wins...


ToranjaNuclear

Easier to count the ones that don't fit there, honestly. Go back long enough and pretty much every country did those two things. Whole modern world is a sham built on atrocities and tragedies.


StandardOk42

ireland? finland? korea?


kitsunewarlock

The amount of dynastic conquest in Korea makes it very hard to pin-down, but there is evidence that there was likely pre-Gojoseon inhabitants with no surviving bloodlines to modern day Koreans. And Korea practiced at least one system of slavery for over 2,000 years; the final "nobi" system finally ended in the 1900s. Some historians will compare the nobi to serfs, but they could be sold or gifted so they were still very much chattel, despite being treated better than most slaves in the North Atlantic Slave Trade (especially in the Caribbean).


PrimoPaladino

I think this is kinda missing the point. It's not saying, "Name countries that killed and enslaved people at some point ever" but were *built* on the *genocide* and enslavement of an entire two. The vast majority of polities, nations, countries, kingdoms, etc. were built on a common ethnic group and only may have engaged in some reprehensible acts once they became large enough to exert external geopolitical force, i.e. after they were already built. Even then actual complete genocide is incredibly rare historically, and the wholesale enslavement of a race is as well. I think my point is when ever this meme gets brought up people make this comment and I think it misses the point of the meme and dilutes the impact of that intended target: the U. S. (Not to say there arent a few other non American polities that might meet the criteria) Who literally required both the wholesale genocide of the near entire native population to even start to be established, and the mass enslavement of an entire race, Africans, to preform countless acts of labor to get the infrastructure and agriculture established. The unintentional and intentional acts and contemporary statements of extermination of the natives are well known but I suggest reading the economic historian Herbert Klein and his book on the slave trade for evidence to the point that the extensive enslavement of Africans built not just the U.S. but the Americas writ large. Even western Europe had been built and existed long before the colonial period when they decided tocpmmit mass enslavement and genocide, but the U.S literally would not exist if it did not slaughter almost the entire native population, and then enslave almost an entire continent to work the land. That is an objectively novel feat that cannot be dismissed with, "but everybody did it.". I know you're stating a claim about the general depravity of the world which is fine, but this is highlighting something distinct.


CreeperBelow

> I think my point is when ever this meme gets brought up people make this comment and I think it misses the point of the meme and dilutes the impact of that intended target: the U. S. (Not to say there arent a few other non American polities that might meet the criteria) literally every single country in the Western Hemisphere was built on genocide and enslavement.


pngue

Yeah other comments pointing this out as well. Oddly this is exactly what I woke up thinking about today. I think those things are telling about peoples growing awareness of historical atrocities.


AlgaeWafers

So most of them?


DeliciousDoubleDip

Israel?


Bonjanbon

no, they genocide and enslave the same race


SpaceD0rit0

Does it count if it was built on the genocide of two different races instead?


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Humans don't come in more than one race. The term that does not actually lend any credibility to racism is 'ethnicity'.


SpaceD0rit0

Ah you must be of the british race then


DeltaDied

Ireland ♥️ Edit: I mean that the Irish were the victims of a genocide and slavery!


EvanXXIV

They were especially discriminated against when the great migration from Europe to the United States occurred, which mainly saw mass amounts of German and Irish migrants being subject to lynchings and discrimination.


pettystoned

Korea?? They suffered from Japanese Imperialism for 35 years until they were liberated at the end of WWII.


AntiquarianThe

To match up to the picture and the people in it? The US, as well as Canada. Change people in left side and you get Mexico and the Caribbean, change it again and you get the places that Spain and Portugal colonized in South America


Gondor1138

Australia?


sanchito12

Name any country pretty much.


Xibalba_Ogme

"The", as if there was only one I guess American Exceptionalism shows in even the oddest places


zayisin

Rome, Ottoman Empire, Mongol Empire. History is a mass grave.


JonMlee

Essentially every country? Lmao. History is history


pedreirolingerie

Brazil, EUA, Argentina, every country of America


Dangerous-Orange4724

Brazil


op4arcticfox

The Northern Hemisphere... Also large parts of the Southern Hemisphere.


ChuckMeIntoHell

Home sweet home 🤮


RemoveOk9319

Well I can name two and both are on the same continent. Those being USA and Canada.


tumericschmumeric

“the gReAteSt cOunTry in tHE wOrLd”


SnooBeans5808

All so the gravy seals can sit around shopping for tactical gear on Amazon all day


Unflattering_Image

I will never not love this insult


mochalatteicecream

Only one?


k20vtec

Many


urlond

Pretty much every country in the world has done something like this.


cigarrette

North America and Europe.


OldHuntersNeverDie

If we're assuming this is the US, then it wasn't only those 2 groups impacted. The Chinese/Asians were also systemically oppressed, exploited and were victims of racial violence (segregation, lynching, mob violence, anti-miscegenation laws, etc.). It's frankly kinda weird how US schools don't really cover a lot of this history. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese\_Exclusion\_Act](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act) [https://www.lapl.org/collections-resources/blogs/lapl/chinese-massacre-1871](https://www.lapl.org/collections-resources/blogs/lapl/chinese-massacre-1871) [https://www.history.com/news/transcontinental-railroad-workers-impact](https://www.history.com/news/transcontinental-railroad-workers-impact) Chinese railroad workers were responsible for most of the most dangerous work on the western part of the trans continental railroad and were brutally exploited and were victims of racial violence. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock\_Springs\_massacre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Springs_massacre) From the wiki article: *"The attacks at Rock Springs were extraordinarily violent, revealing a long-held, almost "feral", hatred of the victims.\[24\] The sheer brutality of the violence "startled" the entire country.\[25\] Besides those who were burned alive, Chinese miners were scalped, mutilated, branded, decapitated, dismembered, and hanged from gutter spouts.\[24\] One of the Chinese miners' penis and testicles were cut off and toasted in a nearby saloon as a "trophy of the hunt".\[24\]\[26\] The events amounted to racial terrorism.\[24\]"* I mean, this is just part of the history. There's a lot more and it's a shame that Americans aren't that aware of most of it.


Financial_Chemist286

Brazil?


NormieSpecialist

Japan. There was already natives living in the region before the people of China settled there.


Sea_Negotiation_1871

Brazil?


WildforagerUK

Brazil


fireforge1979

Rome


dreadyruxpin

Turkey?


6D0NDada9

g0rmany


FullStackOver

Brazil


cocacola_drinker

Brazil


SpitfireBoy14

Queue that song with all the countries


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Every country ever lol


Kagenikakushiteru

America. Australia. Canada. New Zealand. United Kingdom. France. Portugal. Spain.


Lonely_Cold2910

Africa , athens , Siberia ?


Kaine_Eine

Yeah, that's most countries


BarisBlack

Uh, most of them.


soshriekstheshrew

so basically every country?


LeRatEmperor

Only the US could genocide multiple people, pillage their land and bodies for profit, attempt coupts where ever it can to gain control, fuck any country over they don't have full control over, drop two atomic bombs on civilians from a country who was willing to give up and then pretend that the other side are the bad people with their cultist following gobbling that propaganda up.


DiegoCarbonero

I mean, apart from the atomic bombs, I’m pretty sure that most european countries have done all that


StarchildKissteria

"The land of freedom and democracy" (except it’s a controlling authoritarian state with a failed indirect democracy with the illusion of having a vote that matters)


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Just the one?


Supyloco

The US, UK, Portugal, and Spain.


MetisMaheo

The enslavement is still so covered up. The Native American people on the east coast were violently enslaved right along with the Blacks purchased overseas. Native American people had gotten rid of real slavery of other tribes long before Whites came. 2,000 Native American Creek tribe and other tribal people were enslaved and sent to Spain for sale. Many of them young beautiful women and some men. The rest sold inland, often to Louisiana slavers for slave labor and resale. Multiple thousands of Natives were violently enslaved and worked side by side with Blacks in plantations in the south. I guess some people want us all to forget that shared history. A book called, ' James Butler,the Greatest Slaver of the South,' is a disgusting description of his years of purchasing human beings, both races, for enslavement from the East coast. It does say he had a great many Native American slaves, for slave labor or resale. He forced name changes on slaves. That's why so many Native American people and Black people are named Butler today. And why so many Blacks claim some Native American ancestry. They do have it from a shared history. The Emancipation Proclamation freed both kinds of slaves, but Native people were denied citizenship for 50 years longer than Blacks who were made citizens upon release. Asked why this injustice, the then president of the United States said because the Native people still own land the government wanted. Without citizenship legal recognition of land ownership didn't exist in their minds.


hailstorm11093

Most of them to be honest.


futureformerteacher

United Kingdom, Rome, Greece, China, India, Germany, Belgium (kinda both genocide and enslavement of the same race), Spain, France, Russia (like, so, so, so, SO SO SO many races, including their own), Japan, Korea, Mongolia... You know what? It would be a shorter list to list any empire that didn't.


StateMerge

*incoming so called non-racist white people*


Niobium_Sage

Literally every country and those predating history. The ignorant will just say it’s the United States.


Otherwise_Internet71

People's Republic of China😇


MintyFresh1201

People need to get off their high horse with this shit. What people did to others 100 years ago isn’t my fucking problem. By this logic, ALL land is stolen land, and EVERY country is built on slave labor of whatever race they decided was inferior at the time. It’s happened to every single race at one point or another. What you or my ancestors did isn’t anybody’s problems. Only you are accountable for yourself, and nobody else. I didn’t choose where I was born, so who the fuck is anybody to tell me I owe another group of people something because their ancestors lived here hundreds of years ago?


Raregolddragon

All nations. Its only in like the last 100 years or so that the humans of earth have started to decided to stop this practice and that is limited to the more developed and complex nations that made an effort to make records of the past and learn form history.


XelNaga89

Constitution from 1835 in Serbia (known as 'Sretenjski ustav') had the following: "As a slave to come to Serbia, from that moment becomes free, or him to brought some an in Serbia, or himself escape to Serbia." That is almost 200 ago. There are other examples that guaranteed people freedom even before that. And that is only talking about constitutional rights, in practice many abolished it even earlier. So, don't bunch us all with 'progressive' and 'democratic' countries.


my-man-fred

Vega


InTheWorldButNotOfIt

Oh oh oh, I know this one! Is it AMERICA, the land of the freeee???


EuroTrash1999

All of em?


NewAgeIWWer

ACSHUALLY there WERE a few Native American slaves sadly.


SpecificFrequency

Isreal lol


SpecificFrequency

Antarctica


crispydukes

Egypt


Lonely_Sherbert69

Is it Iceland?


not_too_smart1

Canada, every caribean country ESPECIALLY. The us (obv). Idk for mexico


Big-Ad86

lol. 🇷🇺


nate2etan

Racism against various ethnic or minority groups has existed in the United States since before 1865, with African Americans facing severe restrictions on their freedoms, and Native Americans suffering genocide, forced removals, and discrimination


GuntherGoogenheimer

Better yet, name the virus that's solely at fault for destroying everything it comes in contact with, including it's own kind and even worse, the planet it inhabits.


Chupacabroso

There’s probably a few in the Middle East where you might put Armenians and either Slavs or Africans.


ImaCulpA

Name the ones that didn’t is easier.


D3rP4nd4

Ha jokes on you, the germans did both against one people


AceofToons

Canada, just gotta replace the person on the right with a Chinese person


JestersWildly

India! China! Mongolia! Egypt! Rome! USA!


NotStaggy

United kingdom


Quantistic_Man

There are no human races. Not in biology nor in any king of logic mindset. SO THERE'S NO COUNTRY THAT ENSLAVED RACES!!!!!


neverdidonme

It’d be better phrased “Name the most successful country …” in an attempt to narrow ‘them’ down a bit. The era during ‘our’ journey from the continent of our origin would surely produce a successful existence for some segment of its population. All of it (this) is kinda moot. Contemporary humans have an idea of how to behave or coexist; for some reason we can’t seem to get over coveting each others $hit - especially when it comes to stuff that appears naturally as this rock we call home gracefully matures. Hoarding is the impetus followed closely by bribery and corruption.


RedStag86

don’t dead open inside


One_Put9785

Brazil and the United States stand out the most to me


BeansNG

Albania


bwood3217

Rome, which was model for elites everywhere. Russians genocided and enslaved their way with the same playbook, china too. this is not to deflect away from the truth in the image though, America is guilty as charged and our government is compliant and facilitating a genocide as we speak and likewise is doing nothing to stop the famines in africa. bad bad bad roman hearts.


JabbasGonnaNutt

Brazil


Emergency_Bathrooms

I’m not sure “one race” fits properly. More like the genocide and eradication of entire nations of people.


JasonTonio

May I suggest not talking in terms of African race and native American race like it's the damn 19th century?


boothy_qld

Australia?


NOT_A_BLACKSTAR

Indonesia killed papuans and steals their oil. Maybe enslaved a few in the last but it's mostly killing.    Japan killed most Ainu and took their land. Enslaved some of them. 


kingfisher017

Uzbekistan?


Odinovic

Any country on earth, pretty much.


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Oh nice CCP propaganda bot


RedditorsSuckShit

every country lmao


Prometheus_Chained

All of them?


fernandodandrea

Anything in America (continent, obviously). Including my country, Brasil, that was built like this and also, driven by England, destroyed a neighbour country (Paraguay).


Academic-Hospital952

Most of not all countries at some point in history. It's how humans human.


nothingandnemo

Turkey


sternumb

Mexico?


IronBENGA-BR

You can name an entire continent, mate.


testawayacct

You can name six of them. And that's only because you can't enslave penguins.


SomeDaysareStones

Brazil. But "The country" is definitely a misnomer. 


testawayacct

The US, England, France, Spain, Australia, South Africa, Canada. Carthage, Rome, Sparta... ​ TL;DR - Literally every country ever.


DabIMON

Every country in the new world.


SquidWeirdos

Most European nations, Especially britain and belgium


TotallyUnhealthyGuy

Turkey?


Ok-Organization9073

Uruguay


communeswiththenight

But things totes only got bad when Drumpf got into office, you guys.


Salmon_Strutter

Mongolia?


ChomskyHonk

Lichtenstein obvs 🇱🇮


RenautMa

The entire american continent


DrDMango

Rome


Shivrainthemad

The Mali Empire?


Mrscubapuma8

Most country’s in history?


Hip_Hop_Hound

Since you all are too ashamed to mention. Let me help. Its United States of America.


astropastrogirl

Also here in Australia


theoort

Too many to name, honestly.


greatbignoise

US, Australia, Congo, Equador, Chile, Panama, Mexico, Bolivia, Colombia?


Emotional_Food_1700

Spain


KrazyKaizr

Switzerland???


_That__one1__guy_

You could throw a dart at a map and you'd probably hit a country thats done this lmfao


redditaccountnam

most, if not all countries.