RAMIN MAZAHERI—The nationalist view of modern history obscures the fact that it is ideologies which matter, not borders. Ideologies are what produce and define management systems – i.e. governments – and it’s crystal clear that the last 15 years have seen the socialist-inspired management system (China, Iran, North Korea and to a lesser extent Russia) defeat the liberalism-inspired management system economically, militarily and politically. Liberalism is at a Great Depression-level nadir in terms of global admiration.
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RAMIN MAZAHERI—Prior to the six months of bloody Saturdays over 2018-19 France had seen a full decade of incredible political activism. Leftist planning agendas were full of protests, gatherings and strikes concerning: Sarkozy’s bailouts in late 2008, Hollande’s hopeful Socialist Party election, his subsequent U-turn on austerity, the forceful imposition of austerity by Brussels, the fabrication of Macron, his immediate detestation, the spectacularly unprecedented support for – and then the spectacularly unprecedented repression of – les gilets jaunes – this was a 10-year period of intense, intense activism.
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RAMIN MAZAHERI—With decades of anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist fighting clearly under threat from domestic reactionaries, in 1966 Mao supervised the Party’s May 16 Directive to state the threat clearly: “…they will seize political power and turn the dictatorship of the proletariat into a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.” Decoded: the corrupt pro-capitalists will turn China into a West European (bourgeois) democracy.
And from a foreign policy perspective in 1966, a crisis was undoubtedly at China’s doorstep: the U.S. was massively invading Vietnam, and the largest communist party in the world not in power was being the victim of a literal genocide in Indonesia, with U.S. support.
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Why is it never ‘anti-socialists’ & ‘segregationists’ (and libertarians) who killed JFK?
55 minutes readRAMIN MAZAHERI—Also incredibly repressed in allegedly freedom-respecting America is the 2nd Great Red Scare, exemplified by McCarthyism and which is supposed to run from 1947-1957. However, after reading this article you should find it easy to agree that a far better ending to this era would be in 1963 with the assassination of JFK. From the Walker book: “Prior to 1954, anti-Semitic groups seemed to outnumber the few responsible and respectable anti-communist groups or publications then in existence.”
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RAMIN MAZAHERI—Indeed, modern secularists would rail against Robespierre for saying, “The sole foundation of civil society is morality. All the societies waging war against us are based on crime.” This was indeed true of those fighting the French Revolution just as much as it was true of those fighting the Iranian, Cuban or Chinese Revolutions.
More is to be said on Losurdo, superb critic of liberal democracy, but Updike’s Rabbit at Rest won the Pulitzer Prize in 1990 and he’s often considered the greatest postwar American writer. I like his dialogue, but can do without his tedious, essentially sensual-superficial narration of American suburban life (unlike Nabokov there are countless unessential sentences), and especially his depressing, morally empty worldview.