Category: Politics, Power, and Governance

  • Chomsky: Marxism means Socialism,and Socialism means worker ownership of the mea

    Chomsky: Marxism means Socialism,and Socialism means worker ownership of the means of production. Authoritarian communism is the means by which the marxists sought to bring about Socialism. It cannot function b/c information and incentives produce continuous devolutionary cycles.


    Source date (UTC): 2021-04-23 17:04:54 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1385640836571058176

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  • Marxism(Noun) The socialist ideology of the followers of Karl Marx; a radical, r

    Marxism(Noun) The socialist ideology of the followers of Karl Marx; a radical, revolutionary political philosophy that aims to capture state power, introduce a dictatorship of the proletariat, and then progress to communism.


    Source date (UTC): 2021-04-23 17:03:16 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1385640427651575809

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  • No they’re resources. That’s all they are. Polities and societies are for people

    No they’re resources. That’s all they are. Polities and societies are for people. your government either can provide insurance as the insurer of last resort (it’s only job) or it can’t. Companies can’t do it. Profits and losses vary too widely. Only govt can aggregate.


    Source date (UTC): 2021-04-23 16:54:29 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1385638217173684227

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  • The most important predictor of countries is no their strength – it is their wea

    The most important predictor of countries is no their strength – it is their weaknesses that determine their futures.

    conventional wisdom is always wrong

    —George Friedman (american apologist)


    Source date (UTC): 2021-04-22 12:04:17 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1385202796132188161

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    Declining USA is a good idea among many. Is chaos an indicator of decline. There are always rising and falling nations. (But in the end geography, demographics, rule).

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1385202795205349377

  • Declining USA is a good idea among many. Is chaos an indicator of decline. There

    Declining USA is a good idea among many. Is chaos an indicator of decline. There are always rising and falling nations. (But in the end geography, demographics, rule).


    Source date (UTC): 2021-04-22 12:04:16 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1385202795205349377

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    China has a fraction of the military, financial capacity, so why do we see china not declining? Because the USA is a mess – in one of our periods of chaos. No nation is eternal. But we see a rising china that is in greater risk than the USA.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1385202794265780226

  • China has a fraction of the military, financial capacity, so why do we see china

    China has a fraction of the military, financial capacity, so why do we see china not declining? Because the USA is a mess – in one of our periods of chaos. No nation is eternal. But we see a rising china that is in greater risk than the USA.


    Source date (UTC): 2021-04-22 12:04:16 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1385202794265780226

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    The USA won’t cede the region. Doesn’t believe china can mount an invasion of Taiwan. And china doesn’t want to take a risk. So it’s in a difficult position in relation to the USA. China is embattled – borderlands, indians, hong kong, yet pubilc opinion is that china is rising.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1385202792873304068

  • The USA won’t cede the region. Doesn’t believe china can mount an invasion of Ta

    The USA won’t cede the region. Doesn’t believe china can mount an invasion of Taiwan. And china doesn’t want to take a risk. So it’s in a difficult position in relation to the USA. China is embattled – borderlands, indians, hong kong, yet pubilc opinion is that china is rising.


    Source date (UTC): 2021-04-22 12:04:16 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1385202792873304068

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    China would like to become an internal consumer but is desperately poor. And america is no longer willing to fund china’s internal consumption by continuing american consumption. China has only one ally: Pakistan. China’s fear is that USA will block its naval access to trade.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1385202791904423936

  • 6) the impulsive observer will suggest that the problem is to create a fascists

    6) the impulsive observer will suggest that the problem is to create a fascists state like china. However, that only trades the european problem for the chinese problem. https://twitter.com/curtdoolittle/status/1384752080158695424

  • Answers to India’s Questions to Zeihan with My Adds.

    ANSWERS: INDIA CORE ISSUE: The idea of becoming a major power is gone. India is the dominant power in its region. It has the ability to regulate trade in the region. And india can take advantage of it. India is one of only six countries that is developed and not having a population collapse. India is one of a dozen countries that will not have to face an energy crisis. In other words, India is navally to Eurasia as Byzantium was to Europe and the middle east and asia. (CD: the question is whether india can convert from a ‘follower’ country(civilization) to a leader country(civilization). This inabilty to convert to a ‘leader’ civilization is the reason for the repeated historical conquests of india. So, in my opinion, it’s a cultural ‘habit’ or ‘tradition’ that must be overcome. In the institutional formation process, india chose unorganized religion, which of state and power, or law and commerce, is the weakest organizing principle. It’s in many ways beautiful. Harmonious. But it is also vulnerable, and cannot seize opportunities.) INDIA: ECONOMIC India is a loose empire, and must mirror the European tradition, of different states (regions) specializing in different production – that need only, like Germany, be unified by rail. WHY WOULD THE US LEAVE? Thanklessness of the world, and the maltreatment of ordinary americans. Enabling the EU and Canada to undermine the western culture by virtue-signaling that they’re superior, but making Americans pay for the cost of the international order. The cost of maintaining a world military. The trauma of soldiers returning from the middle east. The destruction of the white middle, working, and laboring classes by the offshoring of their labor, paid for the overexpansion of national debt. The American Government is more concerned with the international than the domestic. The left has succeeded in immigrating enough of the third world to create social, cultural, political, and economic breakdown. An empire only survives because it profits from creating an international order. The American world order was not created for the purpose of creating an empire from which it would profit. It was created for the purpose of paying countries to be on our side against marxism communism. Yet there is no reason to pay other countries, pay for the world order, without compensation, and there is no possible means of obtaining that compensation from the world.

  • Answers to India’s Questions to Zeihan with My Adds.

    ANSWERS: INDIA CORE ISSUE: The idea of becoming a major power is gone. India is the dominant power in its region. It has the ability to regulate trade in the region. And india can take advantage of it. India is one of only six countries that is developed and not having a population collapse. India is one of a dozen countries that will not have to face an energy crisis. In other words, India is navally to Eurasia as Byzantium was to Europe and the middle east and asia. (CD: the question is whether india can convert from a ‘follower’ country(civilization) to a leader country(civilization). This inabilty to convert to a ‘leader’ civilization is the reason for the repeated historical conquests of india. So, in my opinion, it’s a cultural ‘habit’ or ‘tradition’ that must be overcome. In the institutional formation process, india chose unorganized religion, which of state and power, or law and commerce, is the weakest organizing principle. It’s in many ways beautiful. Harmonious. But it is also vulnerable, and cannot seize opportunities.) INDIA: ECONOMIC India is a loose empire, and must mirror the European tradition, of different states (regions) specializing in different production – that need only, like Germany, be unified by rail. WHY WOULD THE US LEAVE? Thanklessness of the world, and the maltreatment of ordinary americans. Enabling the EU and Canada to undermine the western culture by virtue-signaling that they’re superior, but making Americans pay for the cost of the international order. The cost of maintaining a world military. The trauma of soldiers returning from the middle east. The destruction of the white middle, working, and laboring classes by the offshoring of their labor, paid for the overexpansion of national debt. The American Government is more concerned with the international than the domestic. The left has succeeded in immigrating enough of the third world to create social, cultural, political, and economic breakdown. An empire only survives because it profits from creating an international order. The American world order was not created for the purpose of creating an empire from which it would profit. It was created for the purpose of paying countries to be on our side against marxism communism. Yet there is no reason to pay other countries, pay for the world order, without compensation, and there is no possible means of obtaining that compensation from the world.