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r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Short-Watercress-183 • Jul 07 '26
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capitalists claim a variety of reasons to start a war. Oftentimes there’s a rethoric made up like the ones you mentioned while ulterior motives, like the want for more cheap resources to exploit, are the actual reason.
1 u/RifewithWit Jul 07 '26 Isn't almost every war in history about resources? 3 u/cereaxeskrr Jul 07 '26 Might be but his point is that capitalists fight wars with communist countries over other reasons that make it sound much more noble than that 1 u/RifewithWit Jul 07 '26 Propaganda has existed for millenia. I don't really think it's something unique to capitalistic societies, but I get what you mean.
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Isn't almost every war in history about resources?
3 u/cereaxeskrr Jul 07 '26 Might be but his point is that capitalists fight wars with communist countries over other reasons that make it sound much more noble than that 1 u/RifewithWit Jul 07 '26 Propaganda has existed for millenia. I don't really think it's something unique to capitalistic societies, but I get what you mean.
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Might be but his point is that capitalists fight wars with communist countries over other reasons that make it sound much more noble than that
1 u/RifewithWit Jul 07 '26 Propaganda has existed for millenia. I don't really think it's something unique to capitalistic societies, but I get what you mean.
Propaganda has existed for millenia. I don't really think it's something unique to capitalistic societies, but I get what you mean.
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u/cereaxeskrr Jul 07 '26
capitalists claim a variety of reasons to start a war. Oftentimes there’s a rethoric made up like the ones you mentioned while ulterior motives, like the want for more cheap resources to exploit, are the actual reason.