Comments by "John Roberts" (@view1st) on "Geopolitical Economy Report" channel.

  1. I think it's already been written. In fact, as I'm given to understand, some capitalists/ fascists were so outraged by it they even wrote a response which they entitled the Little Black Book of Communism.
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  2. Social democracy, for what it was, died in the 1980's under Thatcher and Reagan. It was euthanized rather than violently murdered like in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America which is maybe why we didn't notice its passing so much. Besides, what's so good about social democracy when only capitalists — like social democrats — are the only ones who get elected?
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  3. On paper and in principle, but in practice?
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  4. Says the country with 800 military bases and countless coups to its name, the latest being Syria and Ukraine. 🤨
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  5. China is doing a Europe in reverse.
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  6. Taiwan already belongs to China as a de jure province. The USA implicitly, of not explicitly, recognises this, as does most of the international community, the countries of the United Nations. Therefore, legally, Taiwan is an integral part of the territory of China, albeit one that is currently not under its direct control. As for Japan, I really don't think they are a ready to sacrifice themselves as much as Americans and their supporters would like to believe. Ditto the South Koreans.
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  7. "... especially after the loss of East Germany." Western Germany was reunited with its eastern part in 1989 when the Berlin Wall came down and the Federal Republic of Germany absorbed its rival.
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  8. Socialism was what allowed them to get to first base in the first place. If it wasn't for socialism (or state capitalism/state corporatism?) they would probably have still remained at the same socioeconomic level as India.
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  9. The Soviet Union threw China under the bus. The spat between Kruschev and Mao was the trigger.
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