Comments by "John Roberts" (@view1st) on "The 'globalization' myth, US hegemony, and crisis of capitalism, with Radhika Desai" video.

Well said! And I would add the the cold war was also about the deterrence of state planning by the former colonies of western Europe as a means of achieving national economic development. Just look at the vitriole directed against China and Russia and their planned economies and the praise for a 'free market' that never existed. The West didn't — and still doesn't — want other countries developing and outcompeting them and up until now the rest of the world was assigned the task of merely providing the basic raw materials and initial unskilled labour for the West to then add value by turning those raw materials into manufactured goods. Unfortunately for the West this state of affairs may all change as first China, then Russia, and then India and Latin America break away from this one-sided and unfair system and develop their national economies.
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