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Mike Fish's avatar

“Like” doesn’t really accurately describe my response to this piece about the genocide.

Hard to continue to stomach these repeated, ongoing, murders.

It’s been along time since October 7th, 2023.

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Paul Haeder's avatar

VD Vance, and his rotting hillbilly InBred brain.

Ben Norton

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This point is crucial: The US vice president has admitted that Washington's goal is to keep formerly colonized countries in the Global South trapped at the bottom of the global value chain.

The US-led West wants to maintain a strict international division of labor, in which poor countries in the periphery produce low value-added goods (with lots of competition and therefore low profits), whereas the rich nations in the core extract exorbitant monopoly rents through their control over high value-added technologies (with little to no competition, reinforced by strict intellectual property rights).

China has tried to challenge its subservient place in the world-system, to move out of the periphery -- so the US government has responded with aggressive tariffs, sanctions, and export controls, aimed at sabotaging China's technological innovation and economic development, to keep the US at the top of the global value chain, where it can continue to extract monopoly rents.

In other words, JD/VD Vance has inadvertently acknowledged that the fundamental thesis of the dependency theorists in the 1950s and '60s was indeed correct!

Another win for dependency theory.

https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1902564506183831608

#MAGA #globalization #imperialism

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