Owning the libs
(midwest.social)
Memes of ProductionSomeone should really tell those sweatshop workers doing 16hr shifts to make Nikes that they're living in a communist country where the workers have control over the means of production.
Vietnam has modernized a lot, even in the last couple years. Like America the vast majority of children's labour is agricultural. Unlike America, Vietnam is actually reducing the amount of children working every year.
I didn't even mention child labor in my comment, although that is a problem (and a growing one in the US).
My question is if there's gross exploitation by international corporations is it capitalism or if the flag is red does it just become sparkling exploitation?
Communism and socialism do not automatically shield you from exploitation. In theory it is supposed to protect you from an individual or corporation capitalizing your excess production for profit.
Vietnam is of course a mixed economy and thus still has similar pitfalls as any market economy. Though they do exert more control and protections on certain state enterprises like energy and banking. They also still own the land that corporations lease from.
So in short, the answer to your question is that exploitation is still happening because of capitalism.
I remember years ago hearing about how in Vietnam you could go to small stores and just buy a fuckton of pirated copies of games,movies, and software in pretty well made packaging because they don't give a shit about copyright law and the foreign countries expect them to pay way too much for their wages. Sounds like a genuine paradise to me. Good to see at least one example of communism actually working and not devolving into a totalitarian hellscape.
At least I assume it didn't. I'd think if it did the American government would be using it as another example of why communism is bad all the time especially after they kicked our asses.
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