List of Audiobooks : https://dessalines.github.io/essays/audiobooks.html
Youtube channel : https://www.youtube.com/@dessalines6388/videos

Don’t miss out on his essays : https://github.com/dessalines/essays, https://dessalines.github.io/essays

It’s just a little appreciation post, now you know if you didn’t already

(and his username quite probably comes from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Dessalines)
(If i’m adding a bit of stalking : he was a mod of /r/LateStageCapitalism if i’m not mistaken, under the username /u/parentis_shotgun)

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    6 months ago

    I only knew this one from him, prior to Lemmy(, even if i still haven’t seriously read any of his essays), worth a look[1] : https://dessalines.github.io/essays/us_atrocities.html

    edit( post-@[email protected]’s answer) :
    [1] : What sucks is that i’m certain we could live in peace, help each other, etc.
    Is it simply that capitalists fear to disappear if they allow communism to survive ? Then they should strictly restrict communist ideologies if they don’t entertain the thought of fusing both ideologies to keep the best in each(, e.g., by only allowing capital’s revenues for enterprises in order to keep this organic distribution, which is obviously not the solution, just an idea, theses need antitheses to evolve).
    So, if we agree to stop spreading capitalist ideals(, and even more our covert operations[2]), and other countries agree to never spread communist idea(l)s, as well as (c)overt operations ; and we’re adding that, e.g., citizens who want to change the ideology of their country will have to leave, they’re not allowed to be in politics ; then we’ll have found/searched ways to enforce a long-lasting diversity.
    But even if we’ve found these rules we’d also need for them to be strictly followed, supra-national institutions would have to be able to protect (from )(non-)westerners, with national armies gradually evolving towards a world army(, e.g., for natural disasters), and a support for countries to help them prove that foreign powers are interfering, and obviously a thousand more things, with as many “stress tests” before being adopted, etc.
    We’re not even trying to walk this path, yet cooperation/assistance is the path, we’re in it together.

    It’s also important to note that the current world would need to have much more diversity than currently, we would indeed preserve and be proud of our diversity/uniqueness while not trying to convert the others, but we’d need at least 5-6 different ideologies, and even thousands if we’re hoping for local variations.
    At most, we’ve currently got 3 of them(, free-market capitalism, communism, and theocracy/islamism), i suppose that royalism, republics, and direct democracy could be three more, and the kind of south-american indigenous movement that tries to revive its past a seventh one, but we’re still too homogeneous/‘close to hegemony’ on Earth, Africa has to carve its own path, and South America is too similar to the western world, Europe is also too similar to the u.s.a., and Australia&New-Zealand as well. And there’s obviously many more ideologies that have to exist, and also on other planes than socio-economy//‘political representation’//‘importance given to God/religion’.
    In comparison to westerners, Russia is more different from China, itself different from India, but it could/should still go further, and i’m not going to cite every country you got the point.
    If we reach a state where every “zone” has the same standard of living because we couldn’t fear anymore to help a future enemy, if we jealously preserve our own particularity, and once again can’t possibly fear to be attacked by anyone, then we would focus on something else than military expenses, (war )propaganda, … It’s not perfect but it gets closer, we simply need to get rid of every possibility of fearing something, from ideas to missiles. We’d first have to accept the possibility of definitely protecting ourselves&others, and then actively research how to do that.
    Kinda out of topic with @dessalines(, but not with u.s. atrocities)