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Well that posits the certain existence of an alternative global economic system that would ensure everyone got fed. So while it might be accurate to say that "neocolonialism/imperialism at the highest stage of capitalism" is a system under which people's basic needs are not met, it can't be accurate to say it is "the problem".

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> Well that posits the certain existence of an alternative global economic system that would ensure everyone got fed

The problem isn't that there isn't such a system the problem is how to implement the system without people who benefit from current system trying to destroy it. But we can extrapolate from the fact that even in the most ridiculously unfair conditions such systems have managed to feed people far better than any capitalist country in same or even comparable conditions.

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