I think there is a general brainfart happening in the collective left, whenever it comes to colonial-imperial legacy, that's how you can end up with lefty people clapping for Russia, which is just bizarre on sooo many levels. Also, when people start reading opinion pieces by non-professionals (see: OJ's piece) and think 'oh what an insightful foreign policy/historical analysis, time to take everything at face value'. Excited for part 2!
impo i think the modern international and economic order itself bakes in centralization, distortions, and recurring crises, regardless of whether interventions are justified in moral terms. america or Europe or anyone else ends up reproducing te patterns of effective economic central planning and networked special interest chicanery simply because of how authority, finance, and global capital flows are structured. so i would say that we should pursue a federated, bottom- p alternatives that once existed and showed that democracy can work
That's interesting. Would you not say that crises are just part of affairs more generally? Much like our lives will never be devoid of crisis, the same can be said of state relations?
Well, either absent WW2 or if a deus ex machina occurred just after it to break the special interest group coalescing that had been goin on had occurred, we could have instead trended towards deep multi level true pluralistic federating, with economic, political, scientific, governmental, educational, cultural, etc redundancy, in many cases down to the local levels, instead of a planetary economic central planning regime in disguise which, at this point, I think is likely to just break apart and leave us less polit6iclaly and governmentally advanced than when the project started, or even less advanced than hundreds of years before its started....
I think there is a general brainfart happening in the collective left, whenever it comes to colonial-imperial legacy, that's how you can end up with lefty people clapping for Russia, which is just bizarre on sooo many levels. Also, when people start reading opinion pieces by non-professionals (see: OJ's piece) and think 'oh what an insightful foreign policy/historical analysis, time to take everything at face value'. Excited for part 2!
Sorry for the late response. Yeah, I think I agree with this tbh!
impo i think the modern international and economic order itself bakes in centralization, distortions, and recurring crises, regardless of whether interventions are justified in moral terms. america or Europe or anyone else ends up reproducing te patterns of effective economic central planning and networked special interest chicanery simply because of how authority, finance, and global capital flows are structured. so i would say that we should pursue a federated, bottom- p alternatives that once existed and showed that democracy can work
That's interesting. Would you not say that crises are just part of affairs more generally? Much like our lives will never be devoid of crisis, the same can be said of state relations?
Well, either absent WW2 or if a deus ex machina occurred just after it to break the special interest group coalescing that had been goin on had occurred, we could have instead trended towards deep multi level true pluralistic federating, with economic, political, scientific, governmental, educational, cultural, etc redundancy, in many cases down to the local levels, instead of a planetary economic central planning regime in disguise which, at this point, I think is likely to just break apart and leave us less polit6iclaly and governmentally advanced than when the project started, or even less advanced than hundreds of years before its started....