Yes, happy birthday Karl Marx, but his work on political economy was incomplete as he only ever presented exactly half the conceptual picture he intended to publish before he died. In Capital 1 Marx begins with the dialectic of the commodity, saying that it has both use-value and exchange-value, the former representing the utility of the commodity, the later its price in the market.
The 'Uyghur genocide' narrative being promoted by Anglo-American governments serves only one purpose, to justify military escalation against China, and if the West really cared about genocide, then 'we' would stop committing one against the people of Yemen.
The US is threatening to label Taiwan a currency manipulator on the grounds that they are intentionally devaluing their currency, which is worsening the US trade deficit from the US perspective. The accusation doesn't make sense anyway, given that the Taiwan dollar reached a "23-year high against the U.S. dollar" back in Jan.
The rise of China has prompted many US geostrategic thinkers over the past decade to talk about the degree to which another ‘world war’ is inevitable, including most recently Henry Kissinger, who warned that if the leaders of the US and China did not discuss the limits of their confrontation then world war would ensue.
The 26 June ASIO raids conducted against the homes of NSW parliamentarian Shaoquett Moselmane and his staffer John Zhang are the first to be carried out under the ‘foreign interference’ laws introduced in June 2018, that are ostensibly intended to prevent foreign governments from influencing our political affairs to the detriment of Australia’s national interest. The raids were carried out to find evidence of …
If the objective is to save lives, the optimal/utilitarian solution would be to maximise the self-isolation of as many people as possible for an indefinite period, so that asymptomatic carriers of the virus won't transmit it among their community…
Yes actually. The reason people believe otherwise is because Lenin correctly observed that Britain was the world's leading exporter of capital. However this was possible ONLY because Britain was draining India, NOT by "exporting capital" to India, but by using taxes raised from Indians to finance their imports from India…
Western propaganda comes in two types, 1) we attack them for our benefit (realism), and 2) we save them for their benefit (liberalism), and when it comes to Hong Kong, both the Left and Right of the Anglo world tend towards the latter, actually thinking the political unrest is vaguely because China wants to impose laws on Hong Kong to extradite "human rights" and "democracy" campaigners.
