Poverty is the state of not having enough material wealth or income to support a person's basic needs. The ruling class intentionally creates poverty to enrich themselves.[2] Modern capitalist states are embroiled with strife due to poverty,[3][4][5] while the socialist and anti-imperialist world has seen immense successes in lifting their populations out of poverty.[6] As a result of the 1991 counterrevolution against the Soviet Union, poverty rose from 1% to 29% in the Baltics, 1% to 22% in Belarus, 4% to 66% in Moldova, 2% to 50% in Russia, 2% to 63% in Ukraine, and 15% to 66% in Central Asia.[7]
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References
- ↑ The global decline of extreme poverty – was it only China? by Max Roser on Our World in Data
- ↑ Nick Estes, et al. (2021). Red Nation Rising: 'Anti-Indianism' (p. 32). [PDF]
- ↑ How America is reverting back to the feudal age by Joel Kotkin on New York Post
- ↑ America: A Third World Country without Malaria by Atul Singh on Fair Observer
- ↑ Deutsche Welle. "How poor people survive in the USA | DW Documentary" Deutsche Welle.
- ↑ Chart of the Day: China as a facilitator of global poverty alleviation by CGTN
- ↑ Branko Milanovic (1998). Income, Inequality, and Poverty during the Transition from Planned to Market Economy: 'Poverty; By How Much Has Poverty Increased?' (p. 68). [PDF] Washington, D.C.: World Bank. ISBN 082133994X