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social democracy is the best form of capitalism but it's still capitalism
exactly, it’s still exploitative, especially towards the people who can’t benefit from the social democracy (i.e. people living in the global south, who are victims of the north’s imperialism)
colonialism made the metropoles and its people rich, all made possible by the merciless exploitation and genocide of everyone on earth who wasn’t european. anyone talking about the benefits of colonialism in leftist spaces today would rightly be expelled for being a ghoul. but social democracy is just more of the same, you’re not eliminating the exploitation, you’re just moving it.
look at how labor laws in the global north fueled delocalization. companies couldn’t exploit people in their home countries as well anymore, what did they do? exploit other people elsewhere instead.