darkernations

What a bufoon; pretty much ensuring the destruction of the US (and maybe the world) if 'murica gets trigger happy with their nuclear arsenal

My personal take on the first question would have been the following: assuming those who built the pyramids were only jewish peoples (though this is factually incorrect) the zionist seeks to erase the identity of the African Jew of their African identity when it is convenient - the only valid jewish identity to a zionist is that of settler-colonial fascist, and even that seen through the lens of white supremacism (see for example the forced sterilisation of non-white Jews in Israel).

The zionists re-appropriates the crimes of european anti-semitism against non-europeans as justification for crimes against humanity as they expropriate land and resources at the cost human lives and dignity. The fact there are multitudes more non-jewish zionists than there are of jewish ones is an inconvenient truth to those who weaponise the label of anti-semitism by equating the zionism with judaism at the service of imperialism.

It should be noted that Ture appeared to be arguing using the lens of the coloniser against the latter; that even within the logical constraints of the racist settler apologism the imperialist lackey was wrong.

A lot of us here were liberals (both "left wing" and right wing) once.

Imperialist appropriation in the world economy: Drain from the global South through unequal exchange, 1990–2015 (60 min read)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095937802200005X

Rich countries rely on a large net appropriation of resources from the global South. Drain from the South is worth over $10 trillion per year, in Northern prices. The South’s losses outstrip their aid receipts by a factor of 30. Unequal exchange is a major driver of underdevelopment and global inequality. The impact of excess resource consumption in the North is offshored to the South.

Understanding Unequal Exchange: How does trade imperialism affect the global working class? (20 min read)

https://anticonquista.com/2021/05/19/understanding-unequal-exchange-how-does-trade-imperialism-affect-the-global-working-class/

"You cannot resist for very long a truth you discover for yourself." - NC

Americans—including this author—believe that the international security order the United States constructed in the aftermath of World War II and has been the guardian of in the decades since then has been a remarkable era in human history. This unprecedented “long peace” has provided stability that has enabled not only Americans but most of the other eight billion souls with whom we share this small planet to enjoy greater increases in income, health, and well-being than in any other era of recorded history.

Only a self-deluded parasitic culture could produce such a failure of a human being.

The US.

Wouldn't the expansionist policies here be from the US and its European proxies against both Ukraine and Russia? Land and resources at the cost of slavic lives? A check against political economies not beholden to western dictats?

Maybe but I am not sure ultras as a group have any sufficient political presence globally. I am not sure the author/editors are smart enough to target them specifically let alone WSJ be aware of their presence to merit propaganda aimed at them. Collectively western propaganda and intelligence win historically because of the sheer size of capital they put behind their schemes (backed by populations benefiting from the unequal exchange and security apparatus barbarism) - individuals may be evil and smart but as organisations they are large and blundering. You would think by now they would deftly versed in marxist-leninism - you know just from the viewpoint in defeating their enemy. However, their propaganda is so weak in substance that a superficial overview of an ML understanding of the world is sufficient for westerners to breakthrough their smokescreen (if they wanted to). I think one of Marx's key breakthrough is how capital after being reified can defend itself "organically".

Tacit admission of the Lebensraum playbook and aligning with Nazi strategy; the Grand Chessboard was more explicit, not to mention installation of Nazis in leadership roles in the early days of NATO (now they hide behind false rhetoric of promoting democracy). Of course there's a multitude more examples from Gladio to Azov and this is just another one to add to that fascist pile.

This article is hilarious. I am not even sure who the target audience is meant to be -sinophobic liberals who know what dialectical materialism is? That seems very niche. Maybe it doesn't have to make sense, maybe they were going for a word-salad vibes-based character-assassination.

Also the "shrodinger-style" attack; apparently Xi is both a very smart CPC president and also not able to explain dialectical materialism. Obviously no citations or proof offered for any of the allegations including the attacks of his higher education credentials.

The imperialist intelligensia must be getting more and more desperate as the contradictions of their parasitic economies draws on evermore deepening crises.

Addendum - I just saw someone else make a similar comment before me. I'll just leave it here rather than deleting this.

But is it OK for capital to deny those freedoms? If not then you need something more powerful then capital.

FE:

Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends.

It was something you said a while ago that led me to write this; regarding the societal/cultural pressures of socialism (I think it was in relation how the same politicians would be progressive under socialism but become reactionary in capitalism). Here these would potentially emphasise the collectivist aspects of various chinese cultures while de-emphasising potentially more destructive individualised and reactionary parts; socialism acting as a sort of cultural sieve.

Why is it very expensive? Monopoly rent practices? Supply-chain constraints? Something else?