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  • This is an actual picture of the supposed HSR train corridor in California

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  • You can see most of the ROW in the central valley on google maps. It's the tunnels that are the real issue since they haven't started any of the three main passes yet.

  • 90%, of labor driving the world economy are carried out by workers in the global South. Any political theory that neglects to center these workers as key agents of revolutionary change is misguided.

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  • China did not industrialize on the basis of a colonial empire

    It didn't industrialize directly from a colonial empire, yes. However the capital that flowed into it certainly was, if China had not opened itself up to foreign capital it would not have industrialized anywhere near as fast as it did.

    since the south will eventually get richer despite colonialism

    Until they saturate their markets and start to look outside their borders for new markets.

    while the north will struggle because it doesn't know how to develop without colonialism

    Colonialism is a product of capitalism, if you got rid of the entire global north but let the global south continue capital accumulation they would recreate colonialism, by necessity. No one knows how to develop without colonialism because no one knows how to develop without capitalism.

  • 90%, of labor driving the world economy are carried out by workers in the global South. Any political theory that neglects to center these workers as key agents of revolutionary change is misguided.

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  • World systems theorists being methodologically nationalist, quelle surprise.

    To be clear I'm sure their findings are close to the truth anyway but it just shows the limitations of the data/approach, like in what world is Singapore in the 'global south'. But that's on the data collectors.

    But even disregarding that, including China in the 'global south' post 2008 is patently ridiculous. I really want to see what these percentages would say if China was included in the 'global north'.

  • "Degrowth Communism" will lead to political disaster for both the socialist left and the environmental movement

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  • Well take a gander at his twitter but lets say he's a fellow traveler of LaRouche. More importantly for this though, degrowth is a bit of a bugbear for him. He complains about it constantly so I wouldn't believe he's being honest about his criticism of Saito.

  • "Degrowth Communism" will lead to political disaster for both the socialist left and the environmental movement

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  • Leftists and bad slogans, name a better duo. The non primitivist degrowth people are generally pretty alright but those who take it literally are ... scary. Obviously capitalist growth will have to cease, but society needs to be fundamentally reorganized which is going to take a lot of 'growth' in the productive forces. Because people conflate capitalist growth with technological development the arguments for degrowth sound asinine and they dismiss them out of hand.

    However I just realized the article is cowritten by Leigh Phillips. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that Jacobin would still publish something of his now but its disappointing nonetheless.