Have you read his books what can u recommend

A Brief History of Neoliberalism. His lectures on Capital are great, but it's a long series.

tbh i don't disagree w this assessment relative to the 2005 date of publication but throughout the course of xi's presidency he has severely cracked down on bourgeois elements, workers' exploitation and strengthened the dictatorship of the proletariat to the point that i would not be able to agree anymore w the idea that China is a neoliberal state.

tbf i only read a bit of what i could look up so if you could summarize his ideas that would be appreciated too.

The book is really just him laying out the criteria of neoliberalization (privatization, state serving the market, project to restore class power, etc) and then examining how it came about it in the US, Sweden, China, etc. So it's not really his ideas so much as his documenting of how China opened its markets, was flooded by capital from a west in crisis, private business expanded, etc. Here is the chapter if you are interested.

I don't understand how anybody could say that the engine driving neoliberal capital hegemony isn't part of neoliberal capital hegemony. You can have different sects in the same religion. Now how China manages this economic reality domestically is distinct and should be evaluated on its own terms. They seem more willing to prioritize a national project above the interests of the corporation. They aren't policing empire like the US. They aren't relying on labor exploitation abroad. Those are laudable qualities.

Are those qualities safe from an insurgent capital class? Will they degrade from the neoliberal solvent? Have they?

Ah didn't know he made that book
Thx it's on my to read list

this is the socialism thread not social liberal

true i thought of neoliberal having to have a liberal democracy with it which isn't wholly right. Due to China investment in its sectors made me equate it more with the East Asian model, then again my knowledge on that might be inadequate since its based of a wikipedia and a brief mention of the model in a Zizek lecture lol. Also yea thanks again for the link of that chapter in that other thread, been wanting to read more modern leftist literature but I wanna finish the classics first.

he's so f***ed
remember when he dabbed and said the korean war was good or some s***

that one kim jong un idiot unironically watched vaush

The US has used undemocratic means to install neoliberalism abroad from to Chile to Iraq. A lack of democracy has always just been a convenient pretense more than a roadblock to neoliberalism.

B**** im back out my coma

ARCADE GOON-SAMA

real recognize real

maybe he could model for a fertilizer company because he’s full of s***

bird sound

Neo-Colionialism by Nkrumah is a difficult read because its very very heavy on information such as profits, which companies are aligned with which, where they are doing business, who is who in the industries etc., but all necessary to lay out the case against neo-colionlism and then the parts where the writing is more theoretical are all very good

@Scratchin_Bandit u read it?

what companies for example

just curious what he was writing about

that’d be interesting

i’ll keep it real it seems like PSL has a lot of organizing/rally events recently and in the near future

Rubber companies and mining companies

like firestone n s***

i know they were one of the main rubber/tire companies involved in colonial bullshit