one of many great paragraphs:
The prevailing populist narrative grants the People (of the West) moral innocence by attributing to them utter stupidity and naivety; I invert the equation and demand a Marxist narrative instead: Westerners are willingly complicit in crimes because they instinctively and correctly understand that they benefit as a class (as a global bourgeois proletariat) from the exploitation enabled by their military and their propaganda (in Gramscian: organs of coercion and consent). We’re not as stupid as we’re made out to be. This means that we can be reasoned with, that there is a way out.
How exactly did Red Sails come about? I’ve read a lot on there, but I’m pretty confused on who exactly they are. Not that it’s a huge deal, I’m just curious. Great resource for translations #1 though, as well as these originals