Comments by "John Roberts" (@view1st) on "Glenn Diesen" channel.

  1. That's an ignorant comment. What you call socialism was already a thing in Europe (at least in its western part) from at least the latter part of the 19th century and had nothing to do with the USA. It was a response to the horrors of that oh-so-wonderful capitalism that Americans are so enamoured of and it's somewhat ironic that the USA has to turn to socialism (actually, social democracy, which barely warrants the term socialism) to save the capitalist system from itself due both to the Great Depression caused by capitalism and the European civil war known as world war 2, also caused in part by capitalism. The same goes for Roosevelt's New Deal and the reforms of the 1960's.
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  2. And he of all people should know that.
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  3. ​ @iRelevant.47.system.boycott And I would add systemic racism and sexism, in addition to the inequality inherent to capitalism.
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  4. The Chinese had an assembly line system at least one thousand, five hundred years before Ford. The West was pretty slow in this innovation! How do you think they made the terracotta statues in the tomb of China's first emperor? Or the crossbow (a revolutionary new weapon back then) that allowed him to be so successful. Both were made by standardised parts assembled in sequence by different groups dedicated to just a single part of the manufactory process, the only difference being that they didn't have conveyer belts and were not industrialised.
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  5. China's style of economics is NOT neo-liberal. Neo-liberal = neo-classical. It is the same kind of economics as practiced by the USA and the European Union. Professor Hudson is definitely not arguing in favour of that, quite the opposite. Maybe in can be described as old fashioned liberal economic theory, post-liberal theory or possibly quasi-liberal theory, but certainly not neo-liberal theory. That is what professor Hudson is arguing against.
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  6. So why is China so successful? And Russia? They both use a lot of state planning and operate businesses that are wholly or partly owned or run by the government.
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  7. I very much doubt that a corrupt multi-billionaire like Trump is trying to create anything beyond a slush fund for himself and his benefactors for when he leaves office. I think you are a little naive.
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  8. His take on Stalin 'disappearing' classical economics (value theory and labour theory) is interesting. I wonder what Trotsky's and Lenin's take on Marxist theory were.
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  9. Its neoliberal take on things is also a flaw.
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  10. Is it in English?
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  11. I'd say feminism – however it is defined – is a product of the socio-economic conditions prevailing at any given time. Political economy and the social stratification it engenders its what ultimately determines the kind of society people live in.
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  12. But then Russia will take everything. Russia will have won whether or not a formal peace agreement has been reached.
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  13. I think you are confusing MMT (modern monetary theory) with Keynesianism, which are two more or less opposed economic theories such that this word you use, "hyper-Keynesian" does not make sense (at least not to me).
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  14. ​​​ @gordanapleckovic7556  I don't see any evidence of the USA moving away from militarism other than mere rhetoric coming from the mouth of Trump and even then highly ambiguous and being who he is words that cannot be taken at face value. If the USA draws down its military commitments it will be due to the exigencies of falling off a fiscal cliff rather than a concerted attempt at economic reform.
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  15. Why should he?
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  16. And the entering into Poland of the German army in 1939... that wasn't an invasion either, just a "special military operation" to safeguard the life and liberty of ethnic Germans in Polish territory?
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  17. Good question. I think it also has something to do with self-esteem: states can't have their legitimacy challenged and have to believe unquestioningly in their own moral righteousness.
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  18. Yes, but did he use strictly communist theory or some form of non-marxist capitalism theory?
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  19. ​ @rauldelvillar374 western Europe and North America in their entirety.
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  20. Shut up Hasbara troll.
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  21. They threaten the interests of the USA, Britain and Israel by threatening to discontinue the economic sanctions and military proxy wars against Russia, Iran and China and engage in detente and rapprochement with those countries.
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