It’s wrong to say China is heading for socialism, because it never really abandoned it
Ultimately, what is behind the coverage you see in the West is a sense of dismay that China did not take the path they wanted. China was a socialist state, and still is, but refines its policies in pursuit of its national goals where necessary. It understands the difference between dogmatism and pragmatism, and that is why it so frequently succeeds.
Old Normal vs New: From 1980s Neoliberalism to the ‘Great Reset’
Many people waste no time in referring to this as some kind of ‘Marxist’ or ‘communist’ takeover of the planet because a tiny elite will be dictating policies. This has nothing to do with Marxism. An authoritarian capitalist elite – supported by their political technocrats – aims to secure even greater control of the global economy. It will no longer be a (loosely labelled) ‘capitalism’ based on ‘free’ markets and competition (not that those concepts ever really withstood proper scrutiny).
Weaponizing FAMINE for regime change in Ethiopia
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U.S. moves against Ethiopia and Eritrea: Atrocities alleged, sanctions imposed
“A Morally Bankrupt Institution”: How the UN is Betraying Ethiopia
Worth noting, Ethiopia is part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
U.S. Secretary of State James Baker’s famous “not one inch eastward” assurance about NATO expansion in his meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on February 9, 1990, was part of a cascade of assurances about Soviet security given by Western leaders to Gorbachev and other Soviet officials throughout the process of German unification in 1990 and on into 1991, according to declassified U.S., Soviet, German, British and French documents posted today by the National Security Archive at George Washington University.
NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard
Social Democrats are Fooling Themselves: We Can’t Vote our way out of Neoliberalism
The social democrats may argue that the people’s interests have been represented under capitalism in the past through the New Deal, but this argument is based in multiple layers of deception. Firstly, the interests of the proletariat and the poor will never truly be represented under a capitalist state; the New Deal (which didn’t even advance the wellbeing of those outside of the favored white settler population) was easily undone the moment the capitalist class decided that neoliberalism was necessary. Scandinavia’s descent into neoliberal austerity in recent decades is another example of how under capitalism the capitalists, not the people, have the final say. Secondly, social democracy within an imperialist country still means a perpetuation of imperialist violence and exploitation against colonialism’s victims; even the Scandanavia model, which is idealized by social democrats, has been built upon the profiting off of Western imperialism. And thirdly, capitalism’s crises have made it so that it’s no longer viable to establish social democracy.
Secret cables reveal Britain interfered with elections in Chile
Allende’s policies of nationalisation posed a considerable threat to British and US interests, particularly in Chile’s major industry, copper, whose mines were substantially owned by US companies.
However, with the economy, nationally and globally, in deepening crisis, this would be too little too late and could only be imposed by authoritarian means. However, dictatorships — even wars — have never been bad for all business although inevitably disastrous for the mass of working people.
Why we don’t need a post-Covid ‘new normal’
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