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it’s one of those things that I think appears accusatory but imo it’s a matter-of-fact observation. You aren’t born in the core with the opinion: ‘I approve of my raised stature thanks to exploitation of the global south’. It’s tough to describe, yes all proles in the core are ‘implicated’ but I give those kinds of statements a charitable reading maybe. In another way, I think it’s meant to enlighten rather than guilt
The central point norfield is making cannot be emphasized enough, because so many liberals and socialists in imperialist countries try very hard to put it out of their minds. h&M makes handsome profits, to be sure, but these are dwarfed by the state’s take, once taxes on wages and profits of h&M and suppliers of services to it are added to its VaT 14 iMPerialiSM in The T wenT y-FirST CenTury receipts. in 2013, the tariffs charged by the u.S. government on its apparel imports from Bangladesh alone exceeded the total wages received by the workers who made these goods. The state uses this money, as we know, to finance foreign wars, health care, and Social Security, and even returns a few pennies to the poor countries in the form of “foreign aid.” as Tony norfield argues, low wages in Bangladesh help explain “why the richer countries can have lots of shop assistants, delivery drivers, managers and administrators, accountants, advertising executives, a wide range of welfare payments and much else besides.”12 his blunt conclusion: “wage rates in Bangladesh are particularly low, but even the multiples of these seen in other poor countries point to the same conclusion: oppression of workers in the poorer countries is a direct economic benefit for the mass of people in the richer countries.”
:settlers: moment
Where in my comment did I give anyone an out? I simply added to the conversation by stating a difficulty of organizing.
I don’t like these new rules SHOW US THEIR USERNAME
No witnesses, no suspects. No motive could possibly be speculated!
The literal blood-sucking class should strap this ancient fucker down and extract whatever’s inside him for christ’s sake he’s gonna live to 120
can you link me to any reporting on that? I haven’t read anything specifically but I believe it.
I began noticing individual details and painstaking craftsmanship that went into their creation. The subtle coloring and contouring of angery, the classic trim of sicko-wistful’s suit, the way that individual pores take on a hypnotic pattern in took-restraint, and so much more
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/puzzling-number-men-tied-ferguson-protests-have-died-n984261
yes the shooting of Michael Brown from 10 years ago. Weird to type out, goddamn
it is one of the 3 podcasts I listen to regularly i feel like I get my news updates from them (besides the mega thread here). Or rather, they’re my talk radio. Red Howard Sterns
Annoying internet arguments aside, the people on the ground in the core also face the most expansive and advanced police state mankind has created yet. This makes doing anything close to truly subversive impossible without extreme precautions. Some Ferguson organizers dying (being murdered imo) comes to mind.
ctrl+f ‘train’
3 matches
Across the pond, the climate scandal of multimillionaire and billionaire private-jet use has been provoked by the Paris Saint-Germain football club taking a private flight to Nantes, a mere two and a half hours from the capital by train, and by Bernard Arnault, the head of luxury-goods giant LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton. Arnault, who surpassed Elon Musk this year to become the world’s richest individual, had taken 18 such flights in one month, mostly between Paris and Brussels, an even shorter train distance of just an hour and 22 minutes.
Adding to the challenge to the claim that private jets play no socially constructive role is the vital role they regularly play in disaster relief due to their ability to mobilize rapidly. Global freight constraints, for example, hindered delivery of supplies to Ukraine in the early months of the war, while private jets were much more flexible.
all in all yes, absolutely communist in their analysis of the subjects they cover.