Thank you once again for sharing.

His channel has excellent insights and well put together. Short, easily digestable, well cited and nicely presented along with often beautiful drone photography of China at the end. Thank you yogthos for introducing this channel.

He is a business analyst who sees through the western media smokescreen, the destructiveness of the western military indsutrial complex, the gains China has made, and the sophistication of how China develops out of poverty and builds out diplomacy. He clearly either lives in China or visits often and has first hand experience.

However, he is an excellent example of how deep Western delusion runs.

What is the reason he believes China is winning? Christianity. He claims this from a positive perspective. The language he uses to explain international trade diplomacy alludes to imperialism from a historical context (remember he does not appear to have marxist understanding of capital) in the link to the video attached, with a Chinese Christian twist of the White Man’s Burden as he sees it. He also alludes to why other communist countries have failed in his eyes; their godlessness. It is almost as if it is from another channel. It is amazing that China’s strategy can win loyalty even from these kinds of people. The video in question:

https://youtu.be/7-WA64ecsgM

It is a common theme from liberal analysts who see China in a positive light; the reason for success is anything but marxism-leninsm.

The efficiency of implementation of socialism in China is a remarkable achievement in human history; given limited resources and the pitfalls of attempting to propagate revolutionary agitprop abroad they have decided to instead focus on prioritising mutually beneficial material gains. It is such a powerful force in itself that no resources needed to be wasted in further propaganda; peoples with all sorts of bourgoisie narratives will still promote you if they perceive a benefit for themselves (case in point: the youtuber described)!

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What a bufoon; pretty much ensuring the destruction of the US (and maybe the world) if 'murica gets trigger happy with their nuclear arsenal

A lot of us here were liberals (both “left wing” and right wing) once.

Imperialist appropriation in the world economy: Drain from the global South through unequal exchange, 1990–2015 (60 min read)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095937802200005X

Rich countries rely on a large net appropriation of resources from the global South. Drain from the South is worth over $10 trillion per year, in Northern prices. The South’s losses outstrip their aid receipts by a factor of 30. Unequal exchange is a major driver of underdevelopment and global inequality. The impact of excess resource consumption in the North is offshored to the South.

Understanding Unequal Exchange: How does trade imperialism affect the global working class? (20 min read)

https://anticonquista.com/2021/05/19/understanding-unequal-exchange-how-does-trade-imperialism-affect-the-global-working-class/

“You cannot resist for very long a truth you discover for yourself.” - NC

Americans—including this author—believe that the international security order the United States constructed in the aftermath of World War II and has been the guardian of in the decades since then has been a remarkable era in human history. This unprecedented “long peace” has provided stability that has enabled not only Americans but most of the other eight billion souls with whom we share this small planet to enjoy greater increases in income, health, and well-being than in any other era of recorded history.

Only a self-deluded parasitic culture could produce such a failure of a human being.

Wouldn’t the exapansionist policies here be from the US and its European proxies against both Ukraine and Russia? Land and resources at the cost of slavic lives? A check against political economies not beholden to western dictats?

Tacit admission of the Lebensraum playbook and aligning with Nazi strategy; the Grand Chessboard was more explicit, not to mention installation of Nazis in leadership roles in the early days of NATO (now they hide behind false rhetoric of promoting democracy). Of course there’s a multitude more examples from Gladio to Azov and this is just another one to add to that fascist pile.

But is it OK for capital to deny those freedoms? If not then you need something more powerful then capital.

FE:

Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends.

Their accusations are confessions.

Sounds as suspiciously sourced as the Statistics School of Stéphane Courtois

Fascism at the service of the American Empire.

Thanks (again)! (Never thought about telegram subscriptions as a resource for news aggregate)

Thanks for sharing these stories from the global south.

Can I ask what news aggregate source you use if any? There are sites I frequent but the only “aggregate” resource I know is MR Online.

Thank you for posting the translation.

At no point does he explain:

• how he will defend the “revolution”
• how further coups will be prevented
• how he is going to meaningfully improve democracy if he is concerned the poor only get a democratic voice every few years during election season
• how he will prevent the imperialist forces and the bourgoisie dictating economic policy

If he doesn’t think one needs to read Marx or learn from Castro, Mao or Lenin then he giving the awful impression that he does not have a viable alternative. If one does not have an understanding of the status quo then how will one fight it? How will they understand lessons of the past of those who did fight it and was successful if they do not learn from them? Where is this new theory of successful political economic development that apparently supercedes Marx scientifically?

Critical support indeed.

Without understanding dialectical and historical materialism, without developing a socialist vanguard and without democratic centralism it feels like the seeds for capitulating towards fascism.

Thanks for sharing; glad to see bourgois fear in a socialist country.

So much cope and weasel words in a typical liberal article.

“The large number of rich Chinese heading elsewhere could add to the strain on the nation’s fragile economy”

Fragile? Based on what?

Capital flight controls appear to be an alien concept to these kind of esteemed journalists (nevermind the labour theory of value).

I am also seeing a global theme with a lot of non-western bourgoisie there appears to be an internalised inferiority complex where the ideal is to be some sort of Honorary Aryan.

It’s probably worthwhile reading some Frantz Fanon at this stage to soothe the soul.

/edits: grammar/clarity

Feels like this is a good time to post some of Hakim’s primers for those who are interested/curious:

What if North Korea was a democracy? (Starts at 22 seconds if you want to skip the intro, approx 30 min; can watch in 2x speed if so inclined) https://youtu.be/1f4rKycK6Gg

Why is North Korea so weird? (Approx 12 min long) https://youtu.be/EzDhqXuELjo

What is the deal with defectors? (Again approx 12 min long) https://youtu.be/vBwZjBMbsK0

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Tangent articles

On Brainwashing (1st: 17 min, 2nd: 77 min):

• https://redsails.org/brainwashing/
• https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/

You are right in that I should clarify with regards to limited resources; I mean developed infrastructure (both “soft” and hard eg people and buildings) in the context of an underdeveloped country like India and the uneven development in wealthier capitalist countries taken as a whole.

Furthermore we should also consider a privatised system can include “public” infrastructure systems in a capitalist country (there are myriad ways one could analyse this from the financialisation of tuition fees to the contracting out of education materials and infrastructure that is overwhelmingly dictated by the private sector).

My argument is not really for or against entrance exams (this should be determined through peer reviewed research and may be discipline specific) but there are other loci of focus that are of greater importance to avoid higher education just reflecting wealth demographics and bourgoisie sensibilities including the artificial scarcity of higher paid labour.

I also tend to lean towards Paolo Friere’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed on a more enlightened path for education.

Addendum: I should add that I actually agree with your initial premise that medical schools should have neither entrance exams nor lower degrees; there are places in the world (geographical/historical) where this is/was the reality. However, we should work towards overthrowing the systems that generate the constraints that you have outlined. We shouldn’t just treat the injury of a fallen patient but also question why the patient collapsed in the first place.

I agree current systems disproportionally favour wealth over merit but given limited resources how would one filter candidates efficiently to select those truly motivated and disciplined to study? If one approaches the problem by eliminating privatisation of education you can then work towards a more meritocratic system with or without entrance exams?

I wonder how the sangh will spin this to blame “urban naxalites” (if they do).

“Truly a terrible time to be an Indian right now.”

I think it was Amartya Sen who claimed an excess of 2.5 million deaths per year since formal end of colonisation compared to China - even taking into account liberal “accounting” of deaths (things like unborn children etc). Unfortunately for the majority it has been a terrible time to be an Indian for about the past few centuries though obviously the fascist hindutva for the past decade has not helped. (Someone with more knowledge please correct this figure if inaccurate)

It feels like at this stage if they could have then they already would have by now given the massive military infrastructure losses in northern palestine. They appear to be doing their best impression of a barking dog with no bite. Like a lot of western armies these day they appear to be better at killing civilians and ethnic cleansing as opposed to fighting other militaries.

/please take this layman armchair analysis with a pinch of salt