Cuba's totalitarian regime is strangling Cuba. That the US has an embargo on trade with Cuba - though rich Americans go there all the time, from Beyonce to PitBull - is meaningless. China, Russia, Europe, Latin America are all vacationing, trading, or investing in Cuba whenever they want. There is no blockade. It's so hard for socialists to admit they are in an abusive relationship with the statist ruling classes.
"Many leftists shy away from speaking out against western imperialism because they see international dynamics as too complex, when really it's the least complex part of the capitalist empire."
I would say that many leftists shy away from speaking out, because facing up to western imperialism would force them also to criticize their sacred cows.
Look how many goodthinkers simply cannot bring themselves to admit that St. Obama was an unmitigated eight year long catastrophe. (It would also require them to agree with Trump's positions when he was a candidate on some issues, not that Trump followed through in any meaningful way once he was elected.)
Quite so. The bumbling inadequate Trump was soon corralled and contained by those the deep state surrounded him with. Anybody who might have helped Trump to resist was quickly sidelined by one method or another.
Is it not written that "personnel is policy"? Well, look at the clownshow that was Trump appointments and it is clear that Trump had little in the way of actual, thought-out policy. In fact, it is likely that Trump didn't expect to win in 2016, and he certainly didn't have much of an idea what to do if he did actually win.
This also blows up the russiagate conspiracy theory, as anyone half as intelligent and determined as Putin is supposed to be would have a list of appointees, vetted and compromised and ready to go on Day One.
Your comment on anarchism doesn’t make sense.
https://chomsky.info/1970____/
On the contrary, she describes exactly what "anarchists" do in practice.
Cuba's totalitarian regime is strangling Cuba. That the US has an embargo on trade with Cuba - though rich Americans go there all the time, from Beyonce to PitBull - is meaningless. China, Russia, Europe, Latin America are all vacationing, trading, or investing in Cuba whenever they want. There is no blockade. It's so hard for socialists to admit they are in an abusive relationship with the statist ruling classes.
The reason so-called "progressives" are against private space research is because they don't want anyone to have a hope they could ever escape.
"Many leftists shy away from speaking out against western imperialism because they see international dynamics as too complex, when really it's the least complex part of the capitalist empire."
I would say that many leftists shy away from speaking out, because facing up to western imperialism would force them also to criticize their sacred cows.
Look how many goodthinkers simply cannot bring themselves to admit that St. Obama was an unmitigated eight year long catastrophe. (It would also require them to agree with Trump's positions when he was a candidate on some issues, not that Trump followed through in any meaningful way once he was elected.)
Quite so. The bumbling inadequate Trump was soon corralled and contained by those the deep state surrounded him with. Anybody who might have helped Trump to resist was quickly sidelined by one method or another.
Is it not written that "personnel is policy"? Well, look at the clownshow that was Trump appointments and it is clear that Trump had little in the way of actual, thought-out policy. In fact, it is likely that Trump didn't expect to win in 2016, and he certainly didn't have much of an idea what to do if he did actually win.
This also blows up the russiagate conspiracy theory, as anyone half as intelligent and determined as Putin is supposed to be would have a list of appointees, vetted and compromised and ready to go on Day One.
Russiagate was obvious nonsense right from the off. The compromised ones were those presumably delivered up by Epstein and co.