• Muad'DibberMA
      4·
      2 years ago

      I had this same experience reading Vincent Bevins - the jakarta method recently. I can’t get over how these ppl can learn about all the the terrible things capitalist countries have done to the developing world, yet still remain anticommunist, and still believe all the lies their country tells them about AES.

      It kinda throws their whole scholarship into question, and makes you wonder if anything they say has merit, if they can so easily uncritically accept anticommunism. I’m almost done with reading these ppl because of the chance I might be misinformed by them.

    • MakanOP
      1·
      2 years ago

      “Edit: I also can’t get over her equating Deng and the Dengist reforms with Yeltsin and constantly portraying the Tiananmen protests as result of ‘corporatist’ shock therapy by the CPC. Yeltsin caused 70mio Russians to fall below the poverty line, Deng’s reforms lifted almost a billion Chinese out of poverty. How the fuck are these in any way comparable?”

      Yeah, this annoys me.

  • Shrike502
    4·
    2 years ago

    Decided to let my brain relax a little with some “chewing gum” - namely some Warhammer 40k novels. Are they good literature? Not really. Are they entertaining? Yes.

      • Shrike502
        4·
        2 years ago

        Urdesh: Serpent and Saint. It has submarines, which is something of a dear topic to me

          • Shrike502
            4·
            2 years ago

            Their original book (Brotherhood of the snake) was really good. I know space marine books have a bit of a reputation in the fan community, and it certainly has some of the expected issues, but the writing quality is enough to make you forget about it.

  • Muad'DibberMA
    3·
    2 years ago

    Currently reading The Divide by Jason Hickel. Probably the best introduction to the inequality between countries I’ve read. You could easily give this book to liberals for an introduction to unequal exchange, and how the imperialist countries / the world bank and IMF use debt and other tools to feed off the poorer countries.

    • MakanOP
      2·
      2 years ago

      For a sec there, I thought you said “Jackson Hinkle.”