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Perhaps Tina should read Xue Muqiao. Apparently the 100 million members of the Communist Party of China view that they are living in a socialist society is deluded. Those Stalinists. Perhaps some humility may be useful.

@3:40 you mean to say, "It's finance sector is by far the most atrocious set of rapist bastards in the world". Not really "the most important" - though I guess if you love a good rapist... The economy as a whole does not NET get money FROM the financial sector, they NET give money TO the financial sector. It would be counterfeit otherwise. The "money" (aka. state tax credits) only comes from the government when it spends or when it licenses commercial banks to lend (all the collateral for which came from the past net government spending). Don't be a dick of nerd and claim banks create the currency, they don't, they enhance circulation of currency by issuing state credits, that's negative money whenever the interest rate is positive. Only the government, via bonds, creates new currency with a positive interest rate, but that's not such a nice way to inject currency, since it is a _basic income scheme but _*_only for people who already have money_*_ and in proportion to how much money they already have._

Weird sense of smugness and relief from Tina on acknowledging China isn't "taking over" 🧐

Great discussion. One thing I would like to add; the real estate market in China went bonkers because the CPC had decided to manage real estate in a capitalist style. 2017 there was a deliberate policy change to 'pop' the R.E. bubble before it threatened too much drama. So the 'collapse' is more accurately described as 'managed decline', with some nationalisation and few prosecutions in the case of fraud.

If you think Chinese army is low tech then you are disconnected from reality, informed yourself

Another moronic POM is lecturing China about democracy!!!!

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In Michael Robert's excellent presentation there were major shortcomings. For example, he did not explain what is different in China's planned economy that enabled it to become so successful in the world economy compared to the failure of the Soviet model. Secondly, he gave much evidence of the incredible rise of China's economy compared to that of the West but did not discuss what the consequences would be if China was to continue this rapid direction of travel. Surely, it must become the most powerful economy in the world with all the consequences this would entail politically and militarily. Instead, Michael avoided this central question by only talking about the possibility of war between the US and China. Yet, such a war would only lead to a nuclear exchange which would result in the suicide of the US ruling class. In other words, the same outcome that prevented nuclear war in the past. Certainly, a nuclear war is always possible but it is a mistake to consider this as the only eventuality. Is it not possible that China and it's allies may emerge as the winners in the current economic competition, with the US and Europe declining into a marginalized rump as it is doing in one industrial sector after another? Michael's failure to even consider this possibility, which after all is the current direction of travel, is very strange.

In the Knowledge economy, Research and Development is the key and who has the Intellectual Property. In WW2 Britain a declining hegemon had an engine, Merlin which won the war in vital planes. So that's probably the next war, as with the environment, churning cheap crap out will be looked down on.

Without dealing with family structure 3rd International gains were eventually rolled back.

Glenn Diesen on BRICS / Multipolarity

Takes "brics" to build a wall-to keep America out-fking thanks RUMP!

The answer is yes.

BRICS goes to bed with imperialism, inviting Saudi Arabia or UAE, and ready to allow terrorist NATO member Turkey to join BRICS. Forget BRICS, money money and blablabla.

Yasmine's lighting is too bright.

Kiev in threeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee days 😂😂😂

BRICS / "multipolarity" Glenn Diesen Neutrality Studies Geopolitical Economy Report

Hogarth paintings seem to take the Mick out of the ruling class, but after flicking through Trotsky's view on Art, letting artists do their thing, Marxists seem to be a bit perplexed how art and politics can amalgamate. I have an idea but I'll use it if the class struggle takes a fascist turn. I'll give you a clue along the lines of invisible ink.

Was the USSR Imperialistic?

Do the two-story wooden barracks where lots of people lived in USSR (and in some ghastly cases, continue to live to this day) at that time. I love the austere principles of shitting outside at -25 degree cold!

0:38 - 9:47 courtesy of Sergey Baklykov / Baklykov live (utube).

Evil ideology

Only the total and absolutely enforced markets, the global unified one order, global and total can lead to the overcoming of capital as world capital, only unipolarist or apolarist approaches leads to these possibilities. Multipolarism could only go if globalism could enforce there behind the scene. But why we should do so if you can have the straight way to come to the aim. The unification of human kind under one order, the world order. Ordo ab chaos is a possibility to ensure the order and hegemony. The weakening or abolishing of nation-state serves the unity like biopolitics the security and control state, controlling of population. Israel is western, the backwards must obey? Or? 😊

Thalassocratic action against continental unification.

Crisis leads to the unity of the german people under the german imperial chancelor and the emperor,after crisis leads to the euroasiatic despotism and ruling bureaucracy, crisis leads to fascism, german nationalsocialism, roosevaltianism, than to the fight between neoconservatism and putinism. Today we can see the fight between globalism and nationalsovereignism. Unipolarism/apolarism versus multipolarism. Plutocracy is globalist. Democracy is oligarchy or a kind of fulfilled totalitarianism

First of all study the writings from Marx on Balkan, middle East Europe, Russia, India and China.

very interesting

@23:59 The School of Americas at fort Benning Georgia (now "rebranded" as WHINSEC, where death squad leaders were trained in torture and terrorism (what they call "counter-insurgency", but Roger Trinquier correctly describes as terrorism in his book on the topic. He also explains "The goal of modern warfare is control of the populace, and terrorism is a particularly appropriate weapon, since it aims directly at the inhabitant. In the street, at work, at home, the citizen lives continually under the threat of violent death." - from MODERN WARFARE - A French View of Counterinsurgency). As an aside Colonel Derek Wilford trained with US Special forces at Fort Bragg before moving to the Occupied Six Counties and conducting several terrorist attacks on civilians (the Ballymurphy massacre, Bloody Sunday, to name two). The objective was to stir up sectarianism and allow Frank Kitsner (torturer and aide-de-camp to Queen Elizabeth II) to run Operation Gladio style operations including targeted assassination, psychological operations, internment, torture in prison and "internal enemy" approaches as the French used in Indo-china. These techniques were later utilised by the US Empire in its war of (on) terror.

Regarding 1956: The Lavon Affair is worth researching as it reveals the secret talks between the English and the French and how Israel got nuclear weapons, and Israeli use of clandestine terror networks in Egypt. Also British (SIS/MI6) and US (CIA) involvement in two attempted coups in Syria in 1956 (Operation Straggle) and 1957 (Operation Wappen), which included attempted assassinations of Khalid Bakdash and others. Eisenhower and Macmillan were involved as were the Dulles brothers.

Excellent presentation. Subbed.

Comrades? Are you really Marxists or are you marxists?

How delightful. I've always liked Rosa. I like Marxists when they stick to economics and don't delve into the dialectical materialism woo woo. Hegel's metaphysical stuff about the absolute and the spirit is just Plato gone berserk. Words without corresponding objects. When we ascribe concreteness to imaginary notions we open up a can of worms that lead to all sorts of intellectual mischief, namely religion and its sinister bedfellows. We lose the distinction between reality and literature, like a dimwitted adult who still waits up for Santa on Christmas eve.

was Genghis khan an imperialist??

I said elsewhere on other sites to read really large books it's probably best to storm-troop through them like the Badder-Meinhoff rob banks. Not caring if you don't understand it, just do it and you start picking things up. I'm already starting on Accumulation of Capital as it's relatively small being 447 pages, starting from Section 3 to see if that works (:

Ian talks of approaching Rosa Luxemburg book Accumulation of Capital from starting from Section 3, which is probably not a bad idea because when approaching reading big book subjects you need a tactic how to approach these. But not to be confused with Althusser tactic of reading Marx's Volume 3 first of Capital.

The 2nd International turned out to be a "stinking corpse". Yes the later Soviet Union a countervailing force. and supplied aid at times where needed but whatever it touched seemed to turn to poison. They helped Spanish Revolution in the 30s but it can be argued-- caused its defeat. Etc. Stalin and his apparatchiks dropped the ball big time.

Lenin's break with Kautsky in 1914 was historic. I don't think Lenin ever trusted him again, even when Kautsky turned antiwar a few years later. History proved Lenin's politics correct when it came to the Oct revolution, Kautsky incorrect. And many other things aside from the scene in Russia.

Not sure I buy the argument of Ukraine being a proxy war between Russia and NATO. Firstly... western support to Ukraine has been anemic at best. The most active supporters of Ukraine's war effort have all been nearby Eastern European countries worried about the same thing happening to them. The true imperial powers ie USA has been unreliable with both military and economic aid - largely offloading its expiring surplus materiel to Ukraine while replacing it with expensive defense contractor work Additionally, if the invasion of Ukraine was to weaken NATO, it has already catastrophically failed. Even if Russia swallowed the rest of Ukraine tomorrow, they have already strengthened NATO by pushing Finland and Sweden into joining! Not to mention being a case-in-point justification for NATO's continued existence among it's member states that might otherwise not see the point of membership. Even in Russia's best case scenario NATO has been strengthened, not weakened (Not to mention the loss of people and material in the war itself) Otherwise quite a good video though!

Thanks a lot, i am a long time reader of leguinn, and am reminded of many of her works lately, especially Omelas. It was nice to listen to you explain your views on her work.

Capitalism without imperialism is impossible!

One of the greatest sayings in Marxism is that 'The Working Class has no country', yet it falls on deaf ears and ignorance of supporting one owns country. Mixing capitalist decline with an emerging Working-Class coming out of defeats unfortunately the Farages of today for the moment have the edge, and we on the left have to still be even more patient and build the Left again while living amongst more decline.

Trotsky was a traitor

By the 6th Congress it was all over. We move on to keep the ideas of socialist democracy alive as this video is doing. 🚩🌅

Social fascism might have been, and was likely, the brainchild of Grigory Zinoviev.

Because so many people are disenfranchised, when the Left say 'Refuges are welcome here' it's an educated left that's not really answering the question of 'Economic Migrants'. Marxists are Internationalists but what's dismissed as a conspiracy theory of 'Globalisation', That's another thing the Left are not answering. Soros type World Leaders want the world to be mindless commodity consumers.

I had no idea kneecap were political, great stuff

Well, 1:53:15 Ron Paul is a libertarian, Michael Rectenwald, Judge Napolitano is one and there are many more, of course also Dave Smith and me, too. None of us blames anything on "the Jews". It is about Zionism and nothing else. It is clear that Zionism is the anthithesis to judaism and a fascist or rather national-socialist ideology. This is clear for every libertarian worth his salt. I know what kind of people you are referring to but they are hardly to be described as "libertarian" or the position to be libertarian. There are clear alt-right conservative people who are more nationalist than anything else or openly racist and ethnonationalistic. I think they are far better described as alt-right and nationalists. Sure, the entire conservative movement is under the spell of the Zionists and with it a lot of libertarians, but the least of them starts to believe anti-jewish tropes - if at all they would be much more inclined to believe all the anti-muslim tropes which they are far more susceptible to. Zionists also leverage that.

Wasnt there a 2 state solution in 1948 that was refused by the arab world?

Socialism doesn’t need evangelism. Socialists need to say relevant things about relevant topics. And they need to support the working class again. When I was involved in the largest communist groups in the Netherlands, Belgium, America and Britain, there are often statements like “the common man is so hateful we need to state to hold bigotry down” or “the people are the enemy.” How can a movement of workers win if most of their representatives spend more time complaining about the workers? And they spend the rest of the time attacking about each other. The lessons learned from the rise of Populism is not that any publicity is good publicity, it is that any publicity that appeals to any strata or class that is good.

NF were always trying to recruit outside football grounds in the 79/80's, they attracted a lot of the hooligans, and look what happened we 'ALL' got caged in.