• PugJesus@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    On one hand, it’s absolutely true that living standards have increased dramatically, and we should always fight attempts to falsely romanticize the past.

    On the other hand, these improvements have very fucking little to do with capitalism except insofar as capitalism creates the conditions for labor organization to fight capitalist elites.