What an absurd response. This is akin to saying RT isn’t Russian state propaganda.
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At the very least she needs to publicly commits to ending arms shipments to Israel if elected. Barring that there is no reason to expect her policy to be any different from Biden’s.
The democrats are 100% supporting genocide and anyone trying to sweep that under the rug is also supporting genocide. Trump is obviously not better for Palestinians but how much worse can it possible get? It’s genocide for fucks sake. The choice is between a quick death or an even faster death for the Palestinian people. In either case, they die! Supporting one over the other is not a choice at all. Both options here are unacceptable to anyone with any sense of moral clarity.
I think there are a few obstacles to that actually.
The first is that the global financial system is structured in a way that artificially inflates the value of the Dollar and the Euro. This is great for western capital. However, it also means that domestic labor is more expensive than foreign labor which makes onshore manufacturing unprofitable.
The second problem is that western subsidies rarely hold companies to account. The US tried to onshore semiconductor manufacturing through the CHIPS act in explicit attempt to compete with China. Only a few years later and big recipients of those subsidies are already giving up. Intel is laying if 15k employees and TSMC is delaying and scaling back their plans for a fab in Arizona. Given how much influence over politics capital owners have in western countries, I don’t see this changing anytime soon.
Lastly, I forgot to mention but the artificial inflation of western currencies is in part maintained by their control and influence over the energy trade. Any of course by energy I mean fossil fuels. As such, if the west were to enable a global green energy transition they would be shooting themselves in the foot so to speak. This is likely part of the reason why China is investing so much in renewables. Energy independence will benefit them greatly as they won’t have to depend on an energy market dominated by western powers.
I think you underestimate just how many people are in China and how much development actually needs to happen in order to meet their needs. The urbanization rate of China is still lower than most developed nations despite the massive amounts of construction they’ve done in recent years.
Why would I lie and why does what I said make you so angry?
This is such a wildly naive and orientalist view of the Middle East. If you actually studied the modern history of the region you would know that since the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire western powers have ceaselessly meddled in the affairs of the people there.
They’ve supported coups in order to overthrow democratic governments. They funded right wing jihadis including the precursors to and allies of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda. They’ve enabled war crimes left and right. They even invaded Iraq and Afghanistan and continues to bomb the whole region with an extensive and secretive drone program. Even now the west continues to defend authoritarian and genocidal regimes like Saudi Arabia or Israel as long as they serve their western interests regardless of their destabilizing effect.
The reality is you have no idea what a Middle East would look like without western intervention. To pretend that you do only reveals your complete ignorance and racist arrogance.
The problem here is western nations use orientalist and racist narratives to pretend as if their meddling in the Middle East is not the primary cause of modern conflict in the region. People just accept those natives uncritically and assume they must be the smart ones for having read articles in the NYT about it. Never do they study the modern history of the region and the ways in which western powers are constantly intervening.
I doubt the person you’re replying to would disagree that the advent of capitalism is in fact what brought liberal democracy into existence. The point though is that such progress is unsustainable under a capitalist system and that it will result in various crises, war, and fascism. Therefore we do need to find a way to move past capitalism if we want even the possibility of creating a better world.
Growth isn’t a problem when it’s sustainable. However, there are natural limits to how far and how fast technological development and resource extraction will allow us to grow the economy.
Additionally, competition within capitalism forces the wealthy to seek out any and all means of growth. If they do not they actually risk all of their wealth becoming devalued. This drives innovation but it also is the driver of imperialism, exploitation, environmental degradation, all of which grow the economy.
When growth because less attainable due to various natural constrains, the wealthy start to cannibalize the systems that keep society stable. Again, they can’t help themselves. If they don’t their class position is threatened as some other capital owner beats them to the limited profits that come from privatization and austerity.
This usually results in mass unrest across all the various classes in society. That includes some of the middle classes who also rely on exploitation to maintain their standard of living. In response to threat of social unrest, the wealthy usually align themselves with right wing authoritarians that claim to be able to bring order to the chaos and renew growth through imperial expansion. This kind of politics is often supported by some of the downwardly mobile middle classes. That’s how we get fascism.
How could you possibly come to think that Marx’s works are censored in China? Marxism is literally taught in schools there.
I think you mean it’s designed to prevent partisan interference. RFE/RL’s purpose is to support US foreign policy which makes it inherently political. It is undeniably a propaganda outlet and therefore comparable in function to RT. You may trust American propaganda over Russian propaganda but that doesn’t mean the former is not propaganda.