The article isn't wrong, but it's missing an important piece that communists need address. The US can afford to create and destroy money at whim because of it's position as the global center of imperialism. Because of dollar hegemony, the US extracts all the funding for domestic projects from other countries.
I mean switching from Governor to media mogul isn't a bad grift idea. Writing is on the wall for Dems. It's only he's being a complete moron about it when he should be the Morning Joe of the 2020s.
Very interesting family, historically. They were the creditors for the Holy Roman empire. Eventually when they got defaulted on their position collapsed and Italian banking houses started to fill the void. The Casa de San Giorgino of Genoa eventually became the creditors of the House of Habsburg and financed the conquest of the New World.
France you have to put it in terms the Federal Government will understand. The Statue of Liberty was a loan which could be repaid with freedom dividends, which the US is defaulting on so you can seize it as collateral.
So I don’t really understand why they seem to think a revolution wouldn’t require or isn’t the act of one class subjugating another etc.
As a former "ML is bad anarchist", it's one part ideological and one part ignorance. There are anarchist ideas that are useful for praxis, Lenin's concept of dual power shows anarchistic influence and was necessary for the building of Soviets in Tsarist Russia. What anarchists often don't consider is the reactionary crack down that can destroy an organization with no centralized leadership. If anarchists ever got successful on too large of a scale, they'd be targeted by COIN and then state violence.
The other part is western ideological individualism. We are raised to think our individual opinion is so precious that it's more important than real change.
For the cool anarchists on this site, I'm not talking about you.
Lmao the comments about how they recruit and local protests as if that's bad. That's it's better when non organized people take over protests or better to work with anarchists because they won't make you hold to a party line.
Such is the character of the "Resist" liberals, pure individualism. Politics is not meant for organizing people into making real changes, politics is a signifier of your individual views. This is literally taught in American civics and history courses. Having an individual opinion is more important than creating change.
XHS, I've been keeping up with your China watching and I'm gonna make a very layman prediction.
If China is too enmeshed in Chicago style economics as well as a serving as factory of the world, then it will take a major socioeconomic crisis for the CPC to hit the socialism button.
Considering PRC is willing to trade with anyone whose willing to trade with them, I imagine this as a US major escalation. Whether there's direct warfare, proxy war in Taiwan or Myanmar, or a full on sanctions war like with Iran and Russia, the US and West will do something that means China can't rely on trading with them as their major economic engine.
This will cause an economic crisis and drop in living standards for the Chinese people at large and only then will the PRC make a drastic economic change. They have the physical capital and technical expertise that Deng desired, but the CPC isn't willing to gamble with the prosperity of their people to fully break with capitalism.
But in a Western aggression scenario, they'll have the ideological and pragmatic justification to reorganize the economy to remove neoliberal rot.
It's actually the natural consequence of the last 30ish years of capitalism, aka taking over an entity and stripping it for parts. Vulture capitalists in the 80s started doing this with Latin American companies in the 80s, then that was applied to post Soviet states in the 90s, then in the 2000s it started happening to American corporations. Only natural for two business men to strip the government to it's most basic functions and utilize what's left for their direct profit, not knowing or caring how the thing actually works and runs.
I haven't played it, but the last DLC added "administrative empire" and it's allegedly made Byzantine more fun to play. A China DLC would need to deviate hard from standard CK gameplay to be good, but the last one's a good sign.
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Don't worry man, we can all carry this burden.