Because some people think that Lemmy worldnews should conform to the same pro-US empire ideological biases and complete censorship of dissent and different perspectives as Reddit worldnews. Some people also seem to think the US can do no wrong, even when it's admitted to doing wrong.
Here are your answers, although likely not the ones you had in mind when you asked these questions.
Each one, from each according to their capabilities, to each according to their need. In general most countries can be self sufficient, or at least self sufficient within regional blocs.
I would argue that China is the greatest contributor to humanitarian aid the world has ever known, but I'll bite. The US currently exports the most food as "aid," but this comes with massive costs to the nations receiving it. US food aid is designed to do two things: provide a captive market to over-productive US agriculture, and ensure resource rich nations are dependent on US food supplies rather than their own. The countries pay for this "aid" by growing cash crops for export rather than staples to be consumed locally, or by extracting other natural resources for export and for the profit of corporations in the imperial core. Even something as simple as modernizing agriculture is essentially forbidden to countries receiving US food aid, as more productive agriculture would lessen the position of power the empire has over its neo-colonies.
Up until now, the very real threat of US covert or overt intervention has stopped all but the bravest from ending this cycle of imperialist oppression. Now with the US and allies mired down in Ukraine, BRICS and others have jumped on the opportunity to build something new, partnerships and institutions based on mutual respect and equality amongst nations.
Not at all, I say what I mean and mean what I say.
There are some links in the study guide I linked in my other reply which go into the incredible improvements in material conditions for all Chinese peoples.
All of these issues can be mitigated to the point where they're unproblematic, they just generally won't be or are skipped because it's deemed unprofitable. It's also funny seeing yet another sad nuclear hit piece from a gas lobbyist.
They Grayzone has also done investigative reporting into the inner workings of Wikipedia. Spoiler: it's part of the imperial propaganda machine, and that's partly by design.
These would be problems if China had a liberal economic model. Fortunately they have whole process workers democracy, and these things aren't really problems at all.
Investing in productive forces and quality of life for all makes for robustly strong economic indicators and basically no inflation problem. Cutting rentierism and in large part private profits out of the economy greatly helps these figures as well, and cuts off inflation at its source.
They are taking issue with the double standard the US has presented, both through its actions and official statements. The article quotes statements from a currently sitting Senator, and a member of a US Government adjacent think tank who was a ranking military officer. These are definitely not the private opinions of private citizens.
I've always interpreted Marx's concepts of alienation as talking about mental health issues. More recently people have definitely began to link the material conditions of capitalism with mental health issues, although a specifically Marxist writing on the topic doesn't spring to mind right now. It's also clear to me, both from lived experience as well as various things I've read, that dealing with this alienation labour is almost entirely the same as dealing with common mental health issues such as depression/anxiety, loneliness, and the existential question of what the purpose of my life is.
A lib in my life cannot stop telling me that I really should read this book. I really can't be arsed to waste my time with such inept use of language and complete failure to understand basic political concepts.
What's on the next page, talking about how scientific theories are just "theories," as in untested and unproven; some stoner's shower thoughts?
It's because of what happened after. It's not the violent overthrow of the monarchy in itself, it's the fact that the French replaced their monarchy with a liberal dictatorship of capital, and the Soviets replaced their monarchy with a revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat. It just looks like plain old anti-communism to me.
An embarrassing number of things get me way too worked up, but right at the top of the list is saying healthcare shouldn't be accessible to all. To say that by phrasing your response with an absolute obscene level of racism is a whole new level. But I suppose we shouldn't expect anything less from the footsoldiers of fascism.
Germany effectively did. German libs love to say that we have "freedom of opinion" here and not freedom of speech, but even that freedom of opinion is being eroded almost by the day.
No, we're not liberals, we're communists. We talk shit about and dunk on liberals because we fundamentally disagree and take issue with the entire ideology. We take issue with being called liberals, because we're not.
Liberals have nothing to do with the left.
You can't be a liberal and a socialist at the same time, unless you're talking about philistine and opportunist social democracy.
Non-digetic screams just summarized this whole thing perfectly.
Because some people think that Lemmy worldnews should conform to the same pro-US empire ideological biases and complete censorship of dissent and different perspectives as Reddit worldnews. Some people also seem to think the US can do no wrong, even when it's admitted to doing wrong.