Red_Scare [he/him]

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Joined 4 years ago
Cake day: November 19th, 2020
  • Red_Scare [he/him]@lemmygrad.mltoGenZedong@lemmygrad.ml•The amount of projection and racism in this article is fucking disgusting and nuts. Holy shit.
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    21 days ago

    Lol holy fuck…

    OK so they find the term “Global South” confusing geographically (South Korea is in the ‘Global North’, and North Korea in the ‘Global South’, what a conundrum) and economically (tax havens have high GDP which apparently means they’re rich lol).

    Of course they proceed using the term “Western states” repeatedly without getting confused over implied geography! Germany is to the east of France and China is to the west of Japan, how do you tell which ones are Western?

    They also repeatedly use the term “neo-imperialist” in relation to China and Russia not bothering to explain what “neo-imperialism” is supposed to be and how those states fit that description.

    Anyway, their actual gripes are with the following:

    • The concept of “Global South” delegitimises the international order and the West’s place within in
    • Instead of pursuing hard-nosed strategies driven by their own interests, Western states are expected to consider what the ‘Global South’ wants – be that climate reparations, slavery indemnities, or multilateral institution reform
    • The West is trading its “hard power” for “soft power”, “interests for values”.

    The horror! The rightful place of The West as slave owners and colonisers is under attack, and other nations expect their needs to be heard rather than The West rolling over everything as they did for centuries. The West needs to exercise some of that good old military “hard power” against them, no more mister nice guy!

    But enough about what they don’t like! What would they actually like? The answer to that is in the link at the bottom, here are my highlights:

    • Create units in the National Security Secretariat and FCDO to counter the anti-Western ‘Global South’ narrative.
    • Ringfence 75% of the aid budget for projects which clearly serve Western overseas national interests.
    • Increase UK diplomatic presence across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Oceania.
    • Make the competition with (China and Russia) a key objective of the Government’s foreign policy.

    In short - more of the good old imperialism to combat the “neo-imperialism”! More spooks, more propaganda, more meddling both diplomatic and economic via “aid” programs… And first and foremost, more escalation against China and Russia.

  • Red_Scare [he/him]@lemmygrad.mltoComradeship // Freechat@lemmygrad.ml•Youtube videos from a ML (or at least Marxist) perspective?
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    22 days ago

    removedshott uses the W word completely unironically there, he just openly hates victimised women, which is truly appalling behaviour that should get him booted from any communist party.

    Disclaimer: I don’t support prostitution although for different reasons, pasting below my comment about it from another thread:

    I used to think this is simply, “sex workers are the ones carrying all the risk and harm, so only their opinion matters. sex worker organisations call for full decriminalisation. /thread”

    Until I learned decriminalisation of sex work in the first world leads to increased human trafficking from the Global South: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X12001453#s0045

    To put it bluntly, brown women who would otherwise lead their normal lives, are kindapped and smuggled to be raped by white men, in large numbers, whenever a first world country decriminalises prostitution.

    This works both ways - criminalising prostitution reduces human trafficking, as shown above in the case study.

    People trafficked from the Global South are completely marginalised and poweless, they don’t have a voice. The voices we hear, calling for decriminalisation, are mostly from self employed Westerners. And while I genuinely do care about their right to safer work conditions, for me it doesn’t trump the right of brown women to not be kidnapped and raped by white men.