https://nitter.net/TheEconomist/status/1690713079405768704

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    1 year ago

    fixation on food security

    caring more about feeding people than feeding profits makes you a monster to The Economist

    • YearOfTheCommieDesktop [they/them]
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      1 year ago

      it's not the feeding people that they're even mad about so much as the freedom of action that a country has when it doesn't rely on trade with other nations for essentials like food and energy

        • MemesAreTheory [he/him, any]
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          1 year ago

          B-B-B-BUT muh COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE. This isn't PARETO EFFICIENT, and that's against the RULES. (Please ignore the inseparable intertwining of economic and political power and just play along like dupes)

      • IceWallowCum [he/him]
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        edit-2
        1 year ago

        Guevara has a bunch of speeches about this. IIRC, he differentiated between "political freedom", the power of a people to make their own decisions and act on them, and "economical freedom", the power of a people to decide over their production and trade. He argued that a revolution aims for the former; after that, the post-revolution state builds the latter.