I LOVE THE CIA!!!!!!
man, that is genuinely dystopian.
most currencies are all denominated in USD, nobody has complete monetary sovereignty in the global economy besides a few economies excluded from the IMF, WTO, & world bank like north korea, venezeuela, & cuba & that simulates "hard currency" areas
literally the only reason why they were allowed to pass social democratic reforms is because its a very ethnically homogeneous country so they couldnt tighten the screws on minorities like how most economies could manage in the rest of europe & the US.
i mean, technically it worked in the 80's when japan was outcompeting US goods, the US forced japan, france & germany to devalue the dollar relative to their currencies which created a bubble economy for all of their economies except the US. the plaza accords singlehandedly created the lost decades for japan.
china didnt want to follow in japan's footsteps, which is why china is trying to "dedollarize," expand bilateral trade from the "hard money" area of the US dollar with dollar denominated debt. that will help countries escape with their own sovereign currencies so they dont have to keep begging the world bank for international development loans & get cut off from trade if they step out of line, or beg the IMF to impose capital controls instead of letting capital flight hollow out their country, because the main goal of the financial institutions is to recycle dollars into US treasury bonds & IOUs since that is what finances US military encirclement.
the 3 most traded commodities globally is drugs, guns, & oil & the US wants to maintain its monopoly on all 3 of these sectors.
i mean, technically it worked in the 80's when japan was outcompeting US goods, the US forced japan, france & germany to devalue the dollar relative to their currencies which created a bubble economy for all of their economies except the US. the plaza accords singlehandedly created the lost decades for japan.
china didnt want to follow in japan's footsteps, which is why china is trying to "dedollarize," expand bilateral trade from the "hard money" area of the US dollar with dollar denominated debt. that will help countries escape with their own sovereign currencies so they dont have to keep begging the world bank for international development loans & get cut off from trade if they step out of line, or beg the IMF to impose capital controls instead of letting capital flight hollow out their country, because the main goal of the financial institutions is to recycle dollars into US treasury bonds & IOUs since that is what finances US military encirclement.
the 3 most traded commodities globally is drugs, guns, & oil & the US wants to maintain its monopoly on all 3 of these sectors.
respect, i dont understand why so many people still want gun control legislation, smh dude
opinion on china?
the fact alone that china has 33% of the world's industrial base alone is an accomplishment few economies can only dream of, and now that china is trying to expand bilateral trade with other nations trading in the US dollar instead of waiting for the ratification of any reforms in the IMF proves that at least their goals are more noble. as for the question on whether this is a good communist society, im not sure. on one hand, they do routinely execute billionaires, but on the other they do have more billionares than the US.
what i definitely believe is that the chinese chip industry is soooo much better than the american one, for instance, the US companies do not produce any of the old chipsets for old computers without the intel management engine or the like, whereas you can outright ask allwinner for a10, a64 chips or chips with the open source hardware & firmware so long as you buy in bulk so they get a return on investment. the difference in philosophies is wayyyy better
of course this isnt universal trend though, like how the recently released 7nm chipset kirin 9000s is the same as all closed source bad chipsets, & in the case of allwinner the most updated open source & free chips are 40nm, but for allwinner, rockchip & FreeScale i.MX6 they are significantly freer than american chips
samsung SBCs, most american companies, like raspberry pi SBCs, intel & qualcomm chipsets enforce signature checks to even begin to boot up. its literally 1984
yes, but your confusing a modern tendency & backprojecting it onto adam's smith overall political project, capitalism was trying to free people FROM rent seeking while modern capitalism seek TO extract more rent from the entire economy by disguising trickle down economics as wealth creation.
when endentured servants were incorporated to bourgeois society & afforded the rights of englishmen, they moved further inward into colonial america, & the people that had endentured servants started to need to rely on other unfree laborers to carry out their tasks, but the economic concensus was starting to be had that endentured servants & gradually slaves would have the screws loosened up just like endentured servants & slaveowners would have to once again incorperate themselves with broader free labor/business society
That is, unless of course some technology (like the cotton gin) would be developed & would actually cause slavery to intensify & cause free labor to be put on pause & actually would necessitate that slaveowners tighten the screws on slavery.
as a matter of fact, one of the things that jefferson was thoroughly disturbed on his death bed is he didnt know how the problem of the slave owning south would be dealt with, & the fact that none of the european nation states supported the enfranchisement of slaves & america sought out to copy their institutions kinda explains why theres so many problems in modern america
ah, i see. well, i took my analysis of 1776 from platypus affiliated society & gordon wood, & i agree with them until reconstruction & the gilded age & outright disagree with them when they talk about the history after 1917, but in general im much more sympathetic to arguments by michael parenti, michael hudson & jason hickle because i do think the world that the renaissance/bourgeois society tried to create got outcompeted by the industrial revolution & pulled the rug on the founding fathers because nobody couldve predicted the intensification of the US as an industrial powerhouse creating business cycles, creating a bloodthirsty national security state that "administers society in its best interest" & citizen's united.
i do genuinely believe the US began & sought out to expand self governance, but as the US began needed to get stronger capitalist institutions they needed to develop more european styled institutions to create a powerful nation state, which changed american aspirations for an "empire of liberty" to turn into manifest destiny & the erradication of natives
also, on the point of adam smith, i disagree staunchly. you will never find anyone more critical of capitalism than adam smith because he was the one who articulated how people needed to be freed from the unfreedom of economic rent seeking & also how the employer & employee were at odds with each other, with employers demanding less & employees demanding more, but karl marx is a radical figure because he inverts the ideas that adam smith had on its head & emphasises that the society of free labor is coming into contradiction with itself & becoming a source of unfreedom from where there used to be freedom, & the only way the continuation of the enlightenment could continue is through the recomposition of the dictatorship of the proletariat
man, why cant there be like normal knitting groups, reading clubs, & cooking on nostr, also its kinda surprising there arent that many celebrities on nostr, but i guess they probably get paid more in traditional social media than a niche crypto bro social media or whatever nostr is supposed to be.
hahaha, well for the record you seem cool. im a maoist but id also agree to a term like anarcho communist & the like
exactly dude, i also think the same thing but i think the question it poses is more about mob rule than authoritarianism, i really hope that later on theres more experiments like the cultural revolution because i hope the masses do genuinely take power, or at least not have the majority oppressing a minority of people & the like.
thats very true, the US draws its legitimacy from the fact it says it has democratic institutions & the legacy from the founding fathers, but i mean i dont think they are wrong & that theres some information we are missing by some voices being neglected in the academia like 1619, i just think that the world adam smith envisioned in the 18th century began decaying in the 19th century & becoming an instrument of oppression, & by the dawn of the 20th century the working class finally managed to be conscious enough to finally target imperialism, & fascism but couldnt adequately challenge the CIA & free trade so the USSR gave up their imperial preference just how britain lost the sterling area. but im not saying the USSR was an empire im more saying that it liberalized to the US just like how britain was hollowed out in the aftermath of the lend lease agreement in the 1945
im just a communist lmao, i think there should only be a state when socialism exists but when communism is achieved there would be no state
yeah, i really agree with kropotkin, but i believe that the only way that we could create a world he envisions is through taking state power & it going away over time, like the engles quote, shifting from the administration of people to the administration of things. also, im curious what your take is on the cultural revolution?
nah, its just that typically from what i have talked to regarding to people about 1619 its typically people who are like progressive sorta statist democrat types or libertarians who will not grant any grace to america for being a radical revolution because they didnt free slaves from the outset
ah i see. i was just kinda confused by the assertions you were making because you seemed like a liberal to me & i thought you would be sympathetic to 1776 so when you opposed capitalism i was kinda thrown off haha