Excellent article. I hope this is widely circulated in western leftist and communist circles, because I have seen way too often well-meaning but severely misinformed comrades parrot the talking point that the PSUV should not be supported because some Venezuelan communists said so.

As we all know, just because someone calls themselves a communist doesn’t mean that all their takes are automatically correct, or that they are actually on our side. You have to pay attention to what people do and who they align themselves with more than what they say or claim to be.

If you see “communists” align themselves with right wingers and imperialist proxies against an anti-imperialist government, even if said government is not necessarily a socialist or communist one, alarm bells should start going off and having you question what their real agenda is.

Look at the evil CCP using unpaid forced labor to harvest cotton!

I guess it depends whether you’re just looking at the damage caused by western imperialism or if you also include the Japanese occupation. China was never completely colonized like India but it’s still going to be an astronomically large amount of wealth that they were deprived of by the imperialists. I mean just look at the relative wealth between China and Europe in the pre-colonial era, and then compare that with where China and the West were at in 1948. There was clearly an enormous transfer of wealth that took place in those few centuries, not just from China but from the entire global south to the imperial core. A big chunk of that stolen wealth came just from India and China.

For how much longer though, with energy costs spiraling out of control? Even the US’s auto industry is no longer competitive globally, and their energy situation is nowhere near as bad as ours here in Germany.

At this point the German auto industry is coasting forward on pure inertia since it is so big, but the recent mass layoffs and closures of factories have shown that it’s only a matter of time until that inertia runs out.

The state will try to prop them up of course as long as they can, because if and when the auto industry implodes the effects on the German economy will be catastrophic. But that will come at the cost of more and more austerity.

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Exactly! Always approach sources with a known history of operating as vectors of disinformation and psychological warfare with extreme skepticism. Always look for evidence and corroboration from reliable sources before taking anything they say at face value. And I would also like to add that this same skepticism and caution should be extended to so-called “OSINT” as well.

The OP has written an excellent piece about this subject. I’ve been disappointed to see some folks in anti-imperialist circles base geopolitical and military analysis on data put out by these so-called “OSINT” sources with insufficient skepticism as to whether they are really what they claim to be, or why this information in particular has been made available and what narrative those who control the flow of this information are trying to shape.

Too many people still haven’t grasped this basic truth: if it’s in a pro-Zionist or pro-imperialist publication, it is likely, in some way or another, bullshit. It doesn’t necessarily need to be all lies, but it can and very often is a case of twisting half-truths, misleading framing and intentionally deceptive choice of language. The same applies to analysis derived from so-called “OSINT” sources, which can sometimes appear trustworthy but very often are a tool of Zionist and imperialist psychological warfare.

I also think some people are just so paranoid about “their side” not being pure enough that they will jump at any opportunity to have their fears validated, because it feels good in a sort of masochistic way to wallow in negativity than risk later disappointment or embarrassment. In my opinion it is the same emotional mechanism that leads to the toxic cycles of alternating defeatism and triumphalism that we observe sometimes in anti-imperialist circles which is not productive but feels more emotionally cathartic than maintaining a sober and level head.

It is either being sabotaged or criminally neglected. Either way the objective result is the same which is the severe decay of the rail transport system that anyone who lives in Germany can and likely has at some point experienced first hand. To deny that this is happening would simply be gaslighting.

Indeed.

Either this was some fash on fash violence or the Russians finally did something based. I’m leaning towards the former. Either way, the world is a better place now.

An outstanding piece! This really is the perfect case study to illustrate how the mainstream media function as an imperialist disnformation laundering network on a systemic level.

Ukraine is run by Nazis. Sorry but you are out of your depth in this conversation. You won’t understand why we critically support Russia until you get your basic facts straight and stop listening to the western propaganda around this issue.

How about “Buy Yummy Deserts” or “Balloons Yelling Danger”?

I just assume he has Thai subtitles because he lives in Thailand.

His YouTube channel has a lot of pro Thai military and monarchy content.

By that logic all of us here are paid by the CPC.

as he’s paid by the Thai military

Do you have any evidence for this?

Sorry but that doesn’t make any sense whatsoever.

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Multipolarity is not the end goal but it is a pathway to socialism because it represents the dismantling of the West’s unipolar imperialist hegemony. I strongly recommend that you read this: https://internationalmanifesto.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/through-pluripolarity-to-socialism-a-manifesto-final.pdf

Of course, now that the Zionist-puppet terrorists are in charge the West is ok with Syria again. It couldn’t be more transparent why they wanted Assad out.

Yep. I don’t like it either. It is one of the worst misnomers in all of Marxist theory, because actually it’s not a form of capitalism but a form of socialism. But the fact that it has “capitalism” in the name causes so much unnecessary confusion.