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Every part of our economy and government is dedicated to wiping out any form of socialism. A developing nation even thinks about nationalizing their resource e

by jmyeet 3y ago

Every part of our economy and government is dedicated to wiping out any form of socialism. A developing nation even thinks about nationalizing their resource extraction? Suddenly there’s a coup with the CIA’s fingerprints all over it. NATO is a foreign policy arm of the United States dedicated to crushing any leftist momentum. Hell, we recruited Nazis to run it. We constantly back totalitarian regimes to crush leftists. At a more local level we do things like make municipal broadband illegal. Our government uses eminent domain to seize property for corporate interests. The only non-terrorist domestic law enforcement the FBI does seems to be union busting. We’ve started wars over communism. We had private organizations like the Pinkertons crush collective action. Look up Homestead. It was rumored that when the UK wanted a post-Brexit trade deal, one of our conditions was privatizing the NHS. Every level of our society is devoted to crushing collective action.

jhbadger 3y ago
>A developing nation even thinks about nationalizing their resource extraction Suddenly there’s a coup with the CIA’s fingerprints all over it. In the Cold War, yes, because then it was assumed (rightly in some cases, wrongly in others) that any country who would nationalize their stuff was simply a Soviet puppet state following orders from Moscow. After the Soviet collapse, that isn't what the CIA (or American policy in general) cares about. > NATO is a foreign policy arm of the United States dedicated to crushing any leftist momentum. Hell, we recruited Nazis to run it. Everybody used Nazis after the war. Both the US and USSR snatched up every competent Nazi scientist, engineer, and intelligence officer they could and cut deals with them not to charge them with war crimes if they'd work for them. (Operation Paperclip for the US, Operation Osoaviakhim for the USSR). And of course NATO today isn't focused on containing Communism but rather the right-wing dictator who rules Russia today, and unlike in the Cold War, the current critics of NATO are almost entirely right-wing.

by jmyeet 3y ago

jhbadger 3y ago

>A developing nation even thinks about nationalizing their resource extraction Suddenly there’s a coup with the CIA’s fingerprints all over it. In the Cold War, yes, because then it was assumed (rightly in some cases, wrongly in others) that any country who would nationalize their stuff was simply a Soviet puppet state following orders from Moscow. After the Soviet collapse, that isn't what the CIA (or American policy in general) cares about. > NATO is a foreign policy arm of the United States dedicated to crushing any leftist momentum. Hell, we recruited Nazis to run it. Everybody used Nazis after the war. Both the US and USSR snatched up every competent Nazi scientist, engineer, and intelligence officer they could and cut deals with them not to charge them with war crimes if they'd work for them. (Operation Paperclip for the US, Operation Osoaviakhim for the USSR). And of course NATO today isn't focused on containing Communism but rather the right-wing dictator who rules Russia today, and unlike in the Cold War, the current critics of NATO are almost entirely right-wing.