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Under-appreciative of the US government's tactics? It's informative to go back and read John Perkins' two "Economic Hit Man" books. One sentence in the Introduction to the (2016) second book pretty much summarizes it: "I'm haunted by the payoffs to the leaders of poor countries, the blackmail, and the threats that if they resisted, if they refused to accept loans that would enslave their countries in debt, the CIA's jackals would overthrow or assassinate them." This isn't speculation, but rather the front-line report of a participant in these horrors.

Whatever the complicity of other countries might be, whatever the crimes of other empires, the US empire has disseminated this "strategy" (criminal enterprise) throughout the world, enriching oligarchs and killing scores of poor people, often by starving them to death. That beacon of freedom and democracy, the USA actually offers the quintessential model for inter-nation economic violence and sociopathy.

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I'm really struggling to find any criticism of the American government comparable to what Caitlin or Jimmy Dore or The Convo Couch put out from our political class or from our corporate media.

It simply doesn't exist. It's not heard. For all our tauted freedoms, why is this?

"Harry, why do you beat me?" "You know, Joe down the street beats his wife, too. Why don't you ever complain to me about him? "Harry, you really are a fucking idiot."

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Well yes, that's true. Many on the Left who rightly lay into the massively murderous US capitalist regime prefer to politely ignore the suffering of the victims of the Chinese state-capitalist regime. They are undoubtedly far fewer in number but does that make their humanity any less real? China is, apparently, currently incarcerating 47 journalists for criticising state crimes. The USA/UK has one or two, bad as that is. The media in China are arguably far less free than even the corporate-dominated media of the West. Is there a Chinese equivalent of Ms Johnstone, freely blogging openly in China while sharply exposing the viciousness of the Chinese government and its police? I am open to being convinced about this. In my debates with people here and elsewhere who object to my pointing out the flaws of the Chinese state, none has so far provided evidence that I'm wrong, that those imprisoned journalists are in fact free. Perhaps they are.

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It is our duty to provide critique. Marx said it best himself: "a ruthless critique of everything existing," which includes socialism/communism. We critique not to expose 'injustice.' Rather, we critique to reveal how it's possible for states like the US or China to both exist, to both have a legitimate claim on the legacy of Marxism, to both foreshadow and doom the revolution needed to abolish both of them. One's social identities have nothing to do with this duty. We all must critique from our diverse points of view, and those critiques must be summed up and given direction in an independent workers' party.

Some further reading:

https://beforethedawn.substack.com/p/imperialism-after-history

https://beforethedawn.substack.com/p/the-dialectic-of-self-absorption

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Caitlin, wake up. U.S. and China colluded to create this plandemic. The goal is transhumanism. Not a coincidence the WEF has headquarters in Davos AND China.

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