Aren’t there sources other than Adrian Zenz to use in this sort of centrist-socialist article? (‘Xinjiang oppression is real but stop doing imperialism over it’)
Aren’t there sources other than Adrian Zenz to use in this sort of centrist-socialist article? (‘Xinjiang oppression is real but stop doing imperialism over it’)
We have to do something about Yugoslavia, we have to do something about the DDR, we have to do something about Afghanistan, we have to do something about Guatemala, we have to do something about Nicaragua, we have to do something about Grenada, we have to do something about Panama, we have to do something about China…
Kinda fun how the common thread in all “we have to do something about X” propaganda is that the current administration and government of those countries is doing land reform and or social programs that raise living standards and wages.
Also fun how “helping” them always ends up with tens or hundreds of thousands of excess deaths in the following years as well as massive reductions in employment, wages, and housing. it’s great when “humanitarian bombs” level public infrastructure and industry and the IMF provides loans to rebuild it with the stipulation that it be privately owned.
THIS HAS BEEN THE FUCKING PLAY SINCE 1870 MOTHERFUCKERS! YOU DON’T TO CLAIM IGNORANCE ANYMORE YOU FUCKING GHOULS, ROT IN A PIT GOD FUCK.
The beginning of Parenti’s book about the destruction of Yugoslavia sounds, word-for-word, like descriptions of the corporate media’s take on Uyghurs in China. It was legitimately disturbing to read. The American ruling class is doing literally the exact same thing they did in the nineties—“we must protect the Muslim minority in China/Yugoslavia”—and many many people who were alive at the time and who saw the results are falling for it. Thankfully China today is much stronger than Yugoslavia was in the nineties, but we can’t assume that this situation will last forever. Using the market to enrich your country means that you are subjecting yourself to the market’s anarchy. I think the CCP knows this and has seen what happened in places like Yugoslavia (which took on a shitload of debt from the West in the '70s I think, thereby dooming them to eventual collapse), and that they’re doing their best to basically use capitalism to take over the world via the Belt and Road Initiative and many other policies, but it’s a dangerous game and the best laid plans of mice and men etc. etc.