Comments by "GuyWhoLikesTheSnarkies14" (@guywholikesthesnarkies1435) on "Geopolitical Economy Report" channel.

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  30. The reason why do we keep seeing and hearing all those ultra-left critiques of SWCC as a "merely social democratic liberalism but make it red" is because SWCC is a direct continuation of Lenin's legacy of NEP, an early form and experiment at socialist market economy, by means of pragmatic and materialist endeavor on scientific socialism development and expansion. Emphasizing on extensive, long-term socialist construction in mind addressing the intricacies of capitalist contradiction by scientific means, instead of radical experiment found in Stalin's autarkic collectivism which, let's be real, failed to materialize into successful legacy to be carried over by its successors at home, and applied by other countries abroad due to its inherent limitation and subsequent contradictions that rose relative to specific political and material condition at that specific time i.e. post-WWII reconstruction and isolation period. Let's not forget some important context here: Soviet Union under Stalin didn't immediately become isolated in the first place by Western nations altogether until post-WWII period despite continuous barrages of anti-communist propaganda. In fact, Soviet was actually a major beneficiary of US industrial expansion extensively that's brought upon by the "New Dealers"/the northern industrialist cliques. This condition left Soviet Union with a major weakness that's being critically dependent to US's specific position of relative political pragmatism at the time, given the autarkic nature of Stalin's collectivist economic policy. And we shouldn't mistake Stalin's collectivism and its material results as an advance toward higher stage of socialism, it's not. Collectivism was actually a decisive political economic strategy conceived with primary objective as a defense mechanism against imminent threat of fascism currently on the rise in Europe (at the time), and to safeguard socialism construction by means of improving the material condition and developing the productive forces immediately. Therefore, Soviet Collectivism was meant more as a temporary, somewhat accelerationist political-economic policy with primary intent to raise the living standard and productive capacity of the people, in the face of the rise of fascism in Europe, and later on as a potent defense mechanism to mitigate subsequent fascist military conquest led by Nazi Germany. Moving on, most ultra-left critiques against SWCC tend have no firm basis in real-world material reality. They're, for the most part, a part of alienated left-wing groups unable to contribute anything meaningful to the existing socialist development or even to start one and therefore, are subject to anti-communist propaganda themselves. Furthermore, most of "social democracy" assertions against SWCC are also due to the fact that modern Western social democracy, as well as its derivative eurocommunism form, came about in the first place as a reaction to Lenin's NEP/socialist market economy (and broad socialism in general), tracing its roots from Bismarck's economic and social policy during Imperial Germany. Therefore, their criticism are inherently anti-communist in essence. They're simply capable to mask it through sophistry and dogmatic interpretation of ML-ism in order to distract you from a major fact that SWCC is still a real socialism, and it's what makes China capable of having significant economic growth and material development independently. Whilst Western social democracies wouldn't even be exist without extensively expropriating wealth from other countries.
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  47. To summarize it in a layman term, the state of Japanese economy right now is what some economists would call it as zombie-nomics. Basically, there's a semblance or appearance of economic growth happening in the country but when you actually put it into a quantitative perspective, it's not going anywhere actually due to the fact that those growths could never reduce the enormous amount of debt held at least tangentially. Yet, it's also true that this condition won't affect significantly on the qualitative increase of the living standard of the people, as it's evident that Japan still continues to develop on the technological and innovation sector. But at the same time, this status quo is what allowed the government to continue to maintain the unique stratified model of society where the practice of hyper-capitalist exploitation by the rich upper class continues to persist, but in a way that can be perceived as "tolerable" enough that it becomes some kind of endless cycle. This condition has been perpetuated for so long, to the point where the majority of Japanese people have been desensitized and preconditioned to accept it as the preferable status quo. The majority of lower-middle or median income group would at least still be guaranteed the "adequate" living standard and purportedly "livable" amounts for a disposable income monthly, and it seems so at a first glance until you started taking a deeper look and realized that they're practically still submitted to a corporate slave culture. The rise of material fulfilment into the adequate level doesn't go exponentially with the actual increase of physical and mental well-being of the individuals themselves.
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