If you have any useful resource links please tag me in a comment with the link:
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Add to this if you can, thank you.
Links
Time/Map: https://time.is/Ukraine
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ukraine/@49.1162725,31.7993839,7z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x40d1d9c154700e8f:0x1068488f64010!8m2!3d48.379433!4d31.1655799?hl=en
Leftist discussion threads:
https://hexbear.net/post/177324
https://old.reddit.com/r/GenZedong/comments/t03foy/genzedong_russiaukraine_master_discussion_thread/
https://lemmygrad.ml/
Twitter military updaters:
https://nitter.net/ASBMilitary
https://nitter.net/Militarylandnet
https://nitter.net/MihajlovicMike
https://nitter.net/KofmanMichael
https://nitter.net/TadeuszGiczan/status/1498673348183744518
Global South Perspective: https://nitter.net/kiranopal_/status/1498723206496145413
Better war/propaganda analysis:
https://www.understandingwar.org
https://www.moonofalabama.org/
News updates:
https://www.cgtn.com/special/UkraineCrisis.html
Live: https://www.cgtn.com/special/Live-update-Ukraine-Russia-border-crisis.html
YT/Video in Ukraine:
https://www.youtube.com/c/PatrickLancasterNewsToday/videos
https://www.youtube.com/c/RussellBentleyTe
Why are there a lot of Chinese billionaires again?
Seems like an easy fix
National Bourgeois that dont hold the legislative or decision making power in China arent the primary contradiction China faces as it tries to built its socialist project, its a secondary one that was and is used to help resolve and navigate the primary contradictions. Imperialism ,US world hegemony and domestic undeveloped productiove and technological forces
And since when do billionaires add to productivity fight imperialism or help in any way?
Their companies absorb western/foreign capital from investors trying to get rich, and it keeps accumulation out in the open where it can be controlled and monitored instead of underground.
There is less incentive to infiltrate the Communist party to get rich and destroy it from within when they can just go off into their islands or whatever, and in return Chinese national bourgeoisie are protected from competition by Western companies, i.e Baidu and Ali from Google and Facebook.
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You know how there's a lot of Chinese owners invest in foreign football club, like EPL (UK) or in Italy, that's how they move their assets, including invest in foreign real estate.
I meant :gui:
There are a couple reasons, but there has been alot of theory spilled over this topic. One of the theories is that it is better to have billionaires as an outlet than allows people to blame someone other than the government when stuff goes wrong. This only works if they are not allowed to cultivate cults of personality, which it seems is generally curtailed in China (though I can't tell to what extent as I haven't been there).
how do we stop western billionaires from cultivating cults of personality?
Well, for one they don't allow them to do wealth-posting. As well, they don't allow them to self advertise, outside of published interviews (and maybe like a book deal). They get to be a billionaire but their free speech privileges are curtailed. Basically, it's 'Congratulations, you have managed to make yourself an important part of the economy, now you will be treated as such with more scrutiny'. It goes without saying that there are certainly abuses, though its hard to say if there are more or less that the West.
However, in the West the problem is that there are a substantial amount of people who are bazinga brained enough to do this on their own, which there is not much you can do outside of re-education on economic theory and history.
If you are asking how 'we' as in Hexbearians stop this from happening? The horses are outta the barn on that one. Watch, wait, read and counter when people push on the propoganda hard irl.
So the call is coming from inside the house. Frankly, I'm terrified of what it will take to make Americans stop worshipping rich people with above average PR campaigns.
I don't think it will take that much. Most of the people I know who are like this are PMC liberals (think IT and engineering nerds) who are reddit-brained and while they are substantial in the posting wars, their actual physical presence is limited. Most people I know that actually work for and deal with billionaires (being one of them at one point) do not have such rose-colored lenses on the subject. The problem is that D.C. and most state capitals and economics centers are full of these types of PMC liberals.
The issue is getting these people to actually engage with historical critiques, which can only occur if they want it to occur.
I can think of one way at least