personally i think states being less reliant on the west is good whether it builds to socialism or not

the normal conditions of neocolonialism make it difficult to build a "developmental" state in the first place. so its not really a question of what the third world national bourgeoisie is doing, but what is actually possible. socialism is simply the only system which allows you to fully break with imperialism and even then this isnt a forgone conclusion.

the problem is that imperialism is an all-encompassing totality which only the dictatorship of the proletariat has the possibility of overcoming. third world developmentalism has its own limitations, this was the lesson of the 20th century and the failure of import-substitution to achieve the same goals as socialist command economics. you can argue that it was progressive and I would agree, but you also have to explain why all these bourgeois nationalist "socialisms" had like a 40 year life span before they all eventually became IMF and World Bank slaves.

i mean i agree my position is more so like better than nothing happening at all i guess

sick ass video except an odd 'tankie' shot early on

definitely watch the first part but this whole lecture series by Anwar Shaik is great if you want a better understanding of the profit motive

Yeah probably gonna start going through these soon. Want to eventually read the full book but it is a tome and evidently very difficult, so getting some additional political economy reading under my belt first

Just finished Rethinking Capital by Kliman

Up next I have The Long Recession by Michael Roberts, World in Crisis edited by Carchedi and Roberts, Money and Totality by Fred Moseley, and Classical Political Economics and Modern Capitalism by Tsoulfidis and Tsaliki. Would like to get the Grundrisse in first as well if possible

Roberts is good when he sticks to talking about profits in an abstract sense, his work for MR is indispensable in that regard.

Wym, Monthly Review? I didn’t think he’d ever written for them and has always been highly critical of the MR School

But yeah he goes way too easy on China

maybe MR just republishes his work? ive definitely read his work on there before.

I edited my comment though because I was being a bit too unforgiving, his writings on China as a fulfilled Keynesian system are kinda whack but I did really like what he wrote about the war in Ukraine.

Looks like they’ve republished some of his stuff, you are correct

I like reading MR even if I disagree with a lot of their PE, they do good work in other areas and it’s nice to have a Marxist journal in hard copy that makes me read about other topics and positions on things I wouldn’t take the time to otherwise

American "progressives" doing victory laps over electing some milquetoast left liberal who immediately turns into a genocidal blue dog white supremacist is beyond parody

some of the dumbest propaganda you'll see

I love how nobody gives a f*** about "free trade" anymore lol

deez nuts in ya hoe mouth is a security risk

How long til we get a "Protocols of the Elders of Varanasi"

Very simple:

Having a black president or black CEO at this stage changes nothing for the lot of black Americans.

Building manufacturing capacity in the global south undermines the economic supremacy the imperialist powers wield against poorer countries.

thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2022/03/30/the-end-of-dollar-dominance

Because they are different things, don’t play identity politics

idcommunism.com/2024/03/2024-venezuelan-presidential-election-manuel-isidro-molina-will-be-communist-alternative-to-maduro.html?m=1

congrats to PCV on having the courage to do this, good timing as well since the fascist opposition is both deeply unpopular and virtually banned from the election

The Chinese discovered America before Columbus, they told this to western jewish merchants who eventually told Columbus.

Thanks for putting me onto another dope site

You got anywhere I can read more on this?