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[–] 79 points 3 years ago (6 children)

fixation on food security

caring more about feeding people than feeding profits makes you a monster to The Economist

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  • [–] 35 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    it's not the feeding people that they're even mad about so much as the freedom of action that a country has when it doesn't rely on trade with other nations for essentials like food and energy

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    Guevara has a bunch of speeches about this. IIRC, he differentiated between "political freedom", the power of a people to make their own decisions and act on them, and "economical freedom", the power of a people to decide over their production and trade. He argued that a revolution aims for the former; after that, the post-revolution state builds the latter.

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