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My main disagreement with Trotskysts are related to their view of AES states and global south liberation struggles. They have a very narrow (and utopic, IMO) view of what a socialist transition should look like. Anything that deviates from that very narrow view is seen as the enemy and as a “Stalinist” degeneration.
This has been very problematic in many of the past liberation struggles, like in Vietnam, where they acted to sabotage or undermine socialist or workers’ parties aligned with the USSR. Or even in countries like Brazil today, they spend a lot of their energy trying to critique and undermine other socialist parties (including, surprisingly, other Trotskyst parties) instead of simply working together to build a workers’ movement.
So basically they are a bunch of people against everything and everyone, be them more advanced revolutionary parties, or more backward reformist parties. I could summarize the movement as a ultra left deviation of Marxism.
This scares me. I showed my little daughter a video of Lions, a pet robot, and she fell in love with it. I wonder how people are building tech so we basically start interacting with artificial friends, pets and lovers. And because of it we start living even more isolated than we already are (online) and dependent on products offered by tech giants which are just simulating affection and taking advantage of our loneliness, stress etc.
After China surpasses and start leading in most critical tech industries, the US economy and dollar dominance will simply fall apart (as it may be happening with the AI bubble right now). Why trading for dollars when you can simply import every critical tech, with superior performance and cheaper cost, from Chinese markets?
It makes sense why the US is becoming desperate and willing to wage wars and implement trading chaos to try to disrupt supply chains in order to slow down Chinese progress. But all this effort will lead to nothing as China is always one step ahead of the US.
21·18 days agoMost multilateral institutions which are led by Western powers do serve imperialism.
Also, keep an eye on think tanks and NGOs. Ford Foundation and Open Society are known for co-opting left agendas for something pro system. The RAND corporation and the Atlas network are think tanks to spread Western narratives and right wing propaganda. To a lesser extent, don’t trust human rights NGOs and pro democracy, like OID. They usually have Western donors and act on their interests.
I’d really like to moderate the technology community. The only problem is my availability, as it is really difficult for me to be available every day to read through all posts/comments. Even reading theory has been challenging.
5·20 days agoYes, this scenario is a possibility. I just hope it does not become reality.
This makes Venezuela the 4th
They are just using excuses to justify a fascist takeover. They are using this narrative of China being authoritarian to then justify their own authoritarianism. They don’t want immigrants, they want third world slaves.
Most of the Chinese growth wasn’t done by immigrants, it was done by their own workforce. Immigrants were invited to China and treated with privilege, earning the best salaries, and occupying the best positions. This is partly true even today, when China does not need to bring too many talents with technical expertise, since their industries and universities are already top tier. Immigrants still earn top salaries in international schools.
On the other hand, it’s not like immigrants in the US have been treated fairly. There’s a lot of propaganda of the US way of life prior to the 90s, and they like to maintain the narrative to blame (illegal) immigrants for taking over low income jobs and sometimes working similarly to slaves. The blame, however, will never be assigned to the endless profit seeking attitude of US capitalists. China forced no Western company to relocate their industrial plants to China or other countries.
Sorry, I didn’t mean that they will build up the infrastructure to extract and process rare earths overnight. What I mean is that dispute over the control of rare earths will be the next arena of imperialism. This is also why the US is pivoting from Europe and Asia to Latin America.
The solution the US will choose is to develop part of the rare earth extraction supply chain in third world countries, like Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia and Chile. They will probably keep the refining process. It will take time for this plan to take off, but negotiations are in process.
But I’d say that, if US had an edge over other the rest of the world in regards to the military industrial complex, this advantage is likely gone, at least for now.
People who were propagandized talking about propaganda effects on other people…
While this is a criticism of the US, this article assumes industrial capacity is the only factor for victory. If that was true, then the US should have been victorious in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and other parts of the world.
This is a very common saying that has many variations on the internet. But this exact phrasing was used by Nicholas Klein at a convention of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America in 1918.
It seems that this prohibition did not actually take place.
First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.
I never bought into this far right shit, but I used to access content that was meant as right wing propaganda. I used to browse 9gag a lot, just to have some laughs. But then I started thinking the memes were becoming less funny and more racist, until I stopped going there and instead went to Reddit. Suddenly I discovered socialist subreddits and got hooked into the theory.