Hah, I just posted this on !economics@lemmy.ml, with links to more content from them: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5582400
So far I find it plausible that Naomi Klein did Sachs dirty. Over the last six or so years I’ve found Sachs to be nothing but unvarnishingly truthful, which is probably why his face seldom appears on corporate media.
Indeed, Sachs seems to have finally realized that US truly is an evil empire, and I think he’s profoundly disgusted by the way he has been used.
So far I find it plausible that Naomi Klein did Sachs dirty. Over the last six or so years I’ve found Sachs to be nothing but unvarnishingly truthful, which is probably why his face seldom appears on corporate media.
What’s thou mean exactly?
I mean, Sachs WAS admittedly one of the original policymakers, however idealistic he was, of Eastern Europe’s economies, from shock therapying Poland and Russia, to varying success at best…
Though now he speaks as a detractor against western neoliberalism
He claims to not have been a part of the shock therapy aspects, and to have been trained in and a believer of Keynesian and not the neoclassical/neoliberal economics of the shock therapists.
Maybe he’s telling the truth or maybe he isn’t. It doesn’t matter. Either way he actively participated at a very high level in the destruction of socialism. I don’t think that what he is doing now is in any way trying to atone for that crime because he doesn’t see the destruction of the socialist economies of Eastern Europe as a bad thing. He still holds Poland up as a success while only criticizing the fact that the US was unwilling to treat Russia the same way and instead pushed much harsher shock therapy measures aimed at destroying Russia entirely rather than turning it into a stable vassal state like they did Poland. That being said he is a somewhat prominent anti-imperialist voice now which puts him in the same kind of category as pro-Russia reactionaries - yes they are enemies of socialism, but they are useful to us at the moment insofar as they help weaken US imperialist hegemony.
Yeah, he’s a incorrigibly a liberal. Some people can be turned, but he’s not one of them. He’s never going to be a comrade.
He’s not in the same camp as pro-Russia reactionaries if we’re talking about the US. Those reactionaries are complete culture war chuds and still bloodthirsty for war with China.
Sachs preaches economic cooperation and no military confrontation with China, does not believe they are seeking to be an expanding military empire, and has been vocal about the economic progress made whilst appreciating their relatively nonviolent foreign policy history as well.
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Thought i came here to escape the russian bots 😂
Are the Russian bots in the room with your right now?
Do you have any other lame ass thing to say besides the same regurgitating bullshit from back in 2016? Like damn nigga move on
beep boop, asshole
