They had a “slavery was good for black people” post a while back.
This is not much more extreme than the average liberal who honest to God believes that the colonisation of the third world was a net positive, or at least “nuanced”.
This goes for 99% of fascist beliefs. Tone them down a bit and you get liberalism. It’s why liberal republics are incubators for fascism.
Well, few dengists would deny that the dismantling of the iron rice bowls, privatisation measures and neoliberal policies did not cause an immediate increase in extreme poverty. This is why I didn’t consider the paper relevant (I also agree with the basic facts presented).
Yet at the same time, the argument for why the PRC had to adopt these policies (temporarily) and why under xi jingping there is a turn away from these trends (started under hu jintao really) are linked, and complex.
Under the Mao era organisation of the economy, China faced many economic problems. It was isolated from the world, its technology was lagging behind the west, and the quality and quantity/quantity of consumer goods available to chinese citizens was limited.
These were the same problems that had destroyed the ussr, and the Chinese could see that it was a dead end. What they did was similar to cutting off a leg and eating it after getting stranded on a barren deserted island. Under ideal circumstances, the cpc would have never done deng’s reforms because it would have just been given access to all the tech and international trade it wanted with no strings attached.
When dengists celebrate deng’s reforms, what they are really celebrating is that the wound on the leg healed up and we found a way off the deserted island back to our normal life. Or at least, that’s my perspective on it. Basically, the Chinese people did not want to live under seige conditions waiting to be outcompeted and destroyed.
Genuinely heartbreaking. There will be whole generations of Palestinians who will never forget what they have lost.
Thanks for answering my questions. I appreciate it.
It’s impossible to be smuggled to Egypt and if someone thought about getting smuggled they’d be killed immediately
There’s a company named Ya Hala which you have to pay for it at least 5 thousand dollars to travel
It is a testament to the derangement of the USA and it’s proxies that they won’t let gazans leave easily, even though it would speed up their plan for ethnically cleansing the area and even give them a source of cheap labor.
people in Gaza are living on canned food and that’s why there’s so many diseases there
I assume these are pre-existing stockpiles?
obliged to drink the salty water ،so many people have gotten kidney diseases due to it
Sounds horrific. I cannot stop thinking about the genocide myself, and I am not even suffering. I can only imagine what it must be like for you and your friends.
Economically speaking, deng’s reforms did not so much eliminate economic planning as it changed the way it was done. The Chinese government controls which industries are allowed to grow and decline through controlling credit and availability of material resources. The mode of production has been reverted to capitalist production essentially, but this is something that dengists acknowledge either way.
Forgive me if my questions are a little basic.
What is the current food situation like? I know that most of the aid to gaza is blocked, there is little arable land and the sea is largely blocked. I assume that unrwa is playing a major role, but what else are people in gaza doing to survive?
Also, how exactly are people leaving gaza (whenever they do make it out)? Are they being smuggled through the Egyptian border?
Unfortunately, the death machine is well designed to not need congressional input to operate.
There is nothing priceless about any piece of art ever. Placing a living person’s time and life below a simple image is the most egregious fetishism I have seen in a while.
Yeah, the country with the largest net accumulation of foreign trade surpluses in human history is going to collapse from debt.
That too a socialist economy which can just nullify all internal debts whenever it wants.
Where were you when ccp was kil?
Died from kruschev’s speech
We should do this unironically, but without the bans and stuff.
Dialectics:
People very often confused dialections for being all about opposing forces and contradictions. This is not fully accurate.
Hegel’s dialectics are more fully described as imminent critique, a method where one takes the internal logic of the object of analysis and takes it to its logical conclusion. This is done without bringing in external content or judgement. The point of this excercise is to show whether or not the object in question can stand on its own merit or not. Contradictions are a result of doing imminent critique. We see the internal forces inside an object that will eventually rip it apart. A contradiction is inherently Unstable (or meta-stable at best). No contradiction in the universe can last forever, not even the orbits of the celestial bodies.
Materialism: when hegel first made his imminent critique, it was about ideas evolving through human history. Marx changed it analysing physical and social systems. Mostly the latter, as science is usually more than sufficient to analyse the dynamics of the former.
More broadly speaking, materialism itself has a rich tradition. For most of history, materialist have had to fight against religion and superstition. Today, materialism’s basic premises, that reality exists independently of humans, does not sound like it could possibly be used to justify Communism. This is largely because materialist ideas have spread rapidly through the 20th century, although the associated communist impulse that inevitably goes along with it has been suppressed by propaganda.
By the chronology of the show, no. It would have been infinitely easier for Walt to have swallowed his pride and taken money from gretchen, or even borrowed from hank.
Him becoming a drug lord was always about his own personal pride and sense of worth. It made him feel alive and powerful.
Yeah, Walt is fully responsible. The bourgeois couple are revealed to not even be that bad. The idea that they stole from him is walt’s delusion. He left because of his inferiority complex (which he developed at a very young age).
Honestly, the show is closer to being a Greek tragedy. Many people take it to be a critique of capitalism because of the background context and world models we as an audience bring to the show.
In fact, the show goes out of its way to show that every moment in time, Walt has an out that he refuses to use because of pride. The show itself also analyses the role of the state or big business in the crime or poverty happening only tangentially and gives very little screen time to it.
They’ll get the highly skilled technocrats from outside
Impossible to tell the difference honestly.
My God these articles piss me off so much. The world is more uncertain, unpredictable and risky than ever before? Western values are being undermined?
Stfu. Not only does the lib speak grate on my ears, but even after saying these things, the approach outlined does not change in the slightest.
It’s still just calls for more of the same failed strategy that the west has been using since the end of ww2.
France’s public-sector deficit is projected to reach around 5.6% of GDP this year and go over 6% in 2025. The EU has a 3% limit on deficits.
This is why the EU has to be destroyed. These insane austerity freaks literally never learn no matter how many times austerity fails.
I think the funniest possible outcome would be if putin somehow convinces trump that the Israeli genocide should stop, and trump becomes the anti-genocide candidate.