Forwarded from broadcast 💜
What the data shows is what everyone in the Global South knew instinctively but was contradicted by the dominant economic narrative: the West's wealth was built not through superior productivity or "free trade," but through systematic extraction, forced transfers, and colonial plunder on a scale that dwarfs anything previously quantified.
Put another way: had Western imperialist powers actually paid for what they took instead of extracting it through colonial violence and unpaid forced labor, the "developed" world would have been the "developing" world, and vice versa.
https://arnaudbertrand.substack.com/p/marx-was-just-vindicated-with-hard
Put another way: had Western imperialist powers actually paid for what they took instead of extracting it through colonial violence and unpaid forced labor, the "developed" world would have been the "developing" world, and vice versa.
https://arnaudbertrand.substack.com/p/marx-was-just-vindicated-with-hard
Substack
Marx was just vindicated with hard data
Or how anti-imperialism is the secret to getting rich as a country
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Forwarded from jon's radishes
thanks jason hickel for doing the math many of us don't have the braincells for
source: https://twitter.com/jasonhickel/status/1493599447904931847
source: https://twitter.com/jasonhickel/status/1493599447904931847
Forwarded from Anarchist Memes Database
Before after a revolution happens it is seen as impossible inevitable Rosa Luxemburg
https://news.1rj.ru/str/neomarksizm/8041
https://news.1rj.ru/str/neomarksizm/8041
Forwarded from Das Lamm
Das Lamm
Lobbyistinnen für den Frauenhass
Der Erfolg von Antifeministinnen wie Alice Weidel oder J.K. Rowling zeigt: Wer gegen Frauenrechte kämpft, kann auch Frau sein – und genau daraus Kapital schlagen. Eine Analyse über Galionsfiguren des Antifeminismus und warum niemand dem Zentrum patriarchaler…
Forwarded from CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective
The military occupations around the country and the parade in DC represent the culmination of a long-term shift from persuasion to coercion as disparities in wealth and power intensify. Autocracy requires mercenaries—despicable scum who sell their capacity to inflict violence to the highest bidder.
For autocracy to triumph, people must suppress their empathy, confining themselves to selfish materialism. Their aspirations to community must be replaced with jingoistic conformity. And many of them must be desperate enough for employment that they will accept a wage to do harm to others like themselves.
Yet as economic and ecological crises intensify, millions of people are waking up to the reality that solidarity and mutual aid offer our best chance of survival, whereas the mercenaries who serve autocracy—and the inclination to do violence for a wage—pose the greatest threat to us.
Thank you to everyone who resists. It requires considerably more courage and integrity to be a rebel than to be a mercenary. 🏴
For autocracy to triumph, people must suppress their empathy, confining themselves to selfish materialism. Their aspirations to community must be replaced with jingoistic conformity. And many of them must be desperate enough for employment that they will accept a wage to do harm to others like themselves.
Yet as economic and ecological crises intensify, millions of people are waking up to the reality that solidarity and mutual aid offer our best chance of survival, whereas the mercenaries who serve autocracy—and the inclination to do violence for a wage—pose the greatest threat to us.
Thank you to everyone who resists. It requires considerably more courage and integrity to be a rebel than to be a mercenary. 🏴