woodenghost [comrade/them]

I’m a bit out of the loop: how credible is the counting? Anything hinting at everything not going 1000% correctly at every single point in the chain? No hints of CIA involvement at all? Because it seems easy to manipulate, if all it takes are a few extra votes. The outcome will be contested either way, right?

If the U.S. was not just a bunch of corporations in a trenchcoat, they would have gotten Russia on their side, and used that to encircle China and truely control the oil and LNG markets.

This sound convincing to me and I think russia would gladly have played along in this long term strategy. But capital needed another war now to offset falling profits and overproduction, so no long term planning. Also splitting Russia from Europe might not have worked then and someone still needs to buy all this LNG and exclusively from US firms at elevated prices.

May I ask what prompted this post? Because I don’t really get what you’re arguing against (or for) in practice. But that might just be, because I’m not knowledgeable on British political actors.

Liberals often conflate the often coercive and dominating force that England has on the politics of the union to colonialism

I genuinely didn’t know they did that. I’m surprised they speak about colonialism at all. Are there concrete parties or factions that refuse or engage in alliances that you rather wish they would or wouldn’t?

I think it’s best to define colonialism by the material contradictions that create and maintain it, the function it performs in capitalism. Like primitive accumulation to get capitalism started and absorbing the surplus product outside of capital circulation as well as securing cheap labor and inputs to offset falling profits. Involvement of military or hierarchy seems like a superficial aspect.

Do you agree about framing Irelands history in terms of colonial theory, like Irish marxists seem to do?

Presumably this excludes Northern Ireland

I agree, I was wondering, if the main post was aiming at that, but probably not.

Maybe theoretical physics.