I just finished reading it. A lot of information for the length, and probably helpful for baby leftists. It would’ve been nice to have an explanation of why countries do imperialism, ie why growth is necessary, why the rate of profit tends to fall, but of course that might be a bit of an overload, considering the information density already.
I noticed a few factual errors, though. You falsely refer the the Mujahadeen as the Taliban twice. The mujahadeen is the group that split off into various groups like the Taliban and Al Qeada after extensive support from the west and the ISI. The Soviet casualties in WWII are lowballed to 20 m rather than a more accurate 27-29 m. It’s probably just nitpick-ey, and I understand why you would want a round number, but we all know the CIA tried to kill Castro more than 600 times. Finally, you put the impact of the embargo on Cuba at around 150 b, I’ve actually seen an estimate of 1 t (in the book Socialism or Extinction, I can look for the citation).
Thanks for taking the time to read it and your long comment 😀
The entire introduction is dedicated to explaining imperialism to people in a way that (I tried to) made sense to them. I didn’t want to delve into the whole marxist terminology because I don’t want to scare them off from reading a marxist article just yet lol. You’re right that I didn’t go into the TRPF though, I felt it was already long enough like that.
I’ll have to check about the Mujahadeen, that article is so long and I wrote it in early December that I’ve forgot parts of it lol. Might have been I wasn’t clear in the writing😵💫
I just finished reading it. A lot of information for the length, and probably helpful for baby leftists. It would’ve been nice to have an explanation of why countries do imperialism, ie why growth is necessary, why the rate of profit tends to fall, but of course that might be a bit of an overload, considering the information density already.
I noticed a few factual errors, though. You falsely refer the the Mujahadeen as the Taliban twice. The mujahadeen is the group that split off into various groups like the Taliban and Al Qeada after extensive support from the west and the ISI. The Soviet casualties in WWII are lowballed to 20 m rather than a more accurate 27-29 m. It’s probably just nitpick-ey, and I understand why you would want a round number, but we all know the CIA tried to kill Castro more than 600 times. Finally, you put the impact of the embargo on Cuba at around 150 b, I’ve actually seen an estimate of 1 t (in the book Socialism or Extinction, I can look for the citation).
Thanks for taking the time to read it and your long comment 😀
The entire introduction is dedicated to explaining imperialism to people in a way that (I tried to) made sense to them. I didn’t want to delve into the whole marxist terminology because I don’t want to scare them off from reading a marxist article just yet lol. You’re right that I didn’t go into the TRPF though, I felt it was already long enough like that.
I’ll have to check about the Mujahadeen, that article is so long and I wrote it in early December that I’ve forgot parts of it lol. Might have been I wasn’t clear in the writing😵💫
Yeah, that’s understandable. Were the numbers just rounding down, then?