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wheresmysurplusvalue
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Going to share a set of memes I saw on a Russian meme site which you might enjoy. Rough translations since I'm not at all fluent.
Somewhere in a parallel universe...
Macron announced a special military operation in Niger
Revolt of the Algerians and counteroffensive of Niger
To the French war ship: IDI NAHUI!! (FUCK OFF!!) [reference to black sea event with a Ukrainian boat to a Russian war ship]
NO to Macron's war
Western brands: We leave from France
McDonald's rebrands as "Baguette and dot" - this is a reference to renamed McDonald's in Russia, which is now called "vkusno i tochka", lit. "tasty and dot" or "tasty, period."
If only the kidnapping chiefs were allowed to form a union, this wouldn't have happened
Nothing makes me feel more lib than when I scroll down the thread and notice I didn't upvote after reading one of the bulletins
https://lemmy.ml/comment/1914408
This one? Now I need to eye bleach after reading through all of that dork's comments to find it. Dude needs to touch some grass fr
How is it possible that such a primitive people can reach such technical objectives in such a short period of time?
The secret ingredient is communism
I forget who said this (was it Ramaphosa at the BRICS summit?) - but there was a statement that countries will improve their economies by adding value to products before they are exported, rather than exporting raw materials.
I am wondering, is this really enough? It's obviously a step in the right direction. If a country develops its national productive forces so that different steps in supply chains are found within a country, this has obvious knock-on effects to the economy as a whole. But in the neoliberal capitalist world we find ourselves, I don't think this could be enough on its own. I'm thinking about Arghiri Emmanuel's unequal exchange theory or dependency theory in general.
Does the presence of China change things? Is the idea that BRICS+ countries would further nationalize their economies and develop entire domestic supply chains, and this is good only because they could export to non-western countries and avoid IMF debt traps etc?
Seems to me like the main difference between now and the 90s globalization is that exports would not be intended for the west, and the development would be created through national investment (or Belt and Road) instead of foreign capital.