Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Tomgram: Pepe Escobar, New Silk Roads and an Alternate Eurasian Century | TomDispatch
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 10/6/14 12:13 PM, DW via Marxism wrote: Whatever, no one ever pretended the BRICS had*anything* to do with social justice. You must have missed what I posted yesterday: South Africa is not unlike Brazil, its fellow BRICS country, as it used to be a decade or so ago. It is a rich nation with excellent infrastructure, but with deep social problems. It is a great multi-racial and multi-cultural society with enormous potential. It is a beacon of hope, not only for the African continent, but also for the entire world. full: http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/10/03/in-south-africa-africa-is-rising/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: Tomgram: Pepe Escobar, New Silk Roads and an Alternate Eurasian Century | TomDispatch
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Whatever, no one ever pretended the BRICS had *anything* to do with social justice. Neither did the seemingly dead Venezuelan and Bolivian trade and investment pacts. It's about in the case of the TomDisptach article by Escobar, about a counter-US imperialist economic policies and pacts designed to extend China's influence outside of US influenced trade, monetary and investment hegemony. One doesn't have to agree with the implications of it (I don't) but one should understand where the ultra-bonapartist regimes of China, Russia and now, maybe, India, are taking their mostly capitalist economies in this 'EuroAsian' paradigm. The description Escobar give about what the regimes perspectives are, are very accurate, according to my following what is going on. Even the international trade and investment moves by Brazil and Argentina are of interest here. I doubt, though I might be wrong, that the idea of Germany having a foot in both the Chinese initiatives and the Russian/Chinese ones is a little on the far fetched side despite China becoming, as the article put out, the German's largest trading partner. It's about investment, not trade, really, and Escobar doesn't comment on that. Still, even 14 years ago wondering around the streets of Guanghzou and Shenzhen German language schools outnumbered English ones about 4 to 1. Read the whole article... David Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Tomgram: Pepe Escobar, New Silk Roads and an Alternate Eurasian Century | TomDispatch
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Oct 6, 2014, at 10:09 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote: ...tomdispatch.com, a website that generally eschews geopolitical chess games discourse... However, to quote Wittgenstein, "this game also is played." And by very serious players. Meanwhile Andrew Pollack tries to play a long-dead game on a nonexistent four-dimensional board: "today when, if we don't SEIZE POWER from the bourgeoisie and democratically plan production and consumption for the entire globe, humanity is fucked. And those who say DON'T seize power are helping to fuck us." Shane Mage "scientific discovery is basically recognition of obvious realities that self-interest or ideology have kept everybody from paying attention to" Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: Tomgram: Pepe Escobar, New Silk Roads and an Alternate Eurasian Century | TomDispatch
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Pepe Escobar is a prolific propagandist for BRICS counter-hegemony. In this article that appears on tomdispatch.com, a website that generally eschews geopolitical chess games discourse, he describes China's role in consummating a new hegemony based on Russian energy and Chinese cash. What this has to do with social justice or rational economic development is anybody's guess. In this most revealing paragraph, he implicitly gives his approval to China's oppression of the Uighur minority: The central node of China’s elaborate planning for the Eurasian future is Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang Province and the site of the largest commercial fair in Central Asia, the China-Eurasia Fair. Since 2000, one of Beijing’s top priorities has been to urbanize that largely desert but oil-rich province and industrialize it, whatever it takes. And what it takes, as Beijing sees it, is the hardcore Sinicization of the region -- with its corollary, the suppression of any possibility of ethnic Uighur dissent. People’s Liberation Army General Li Yazhou has, in these terms, described Central Asia as “the most subtle slice of cake donated by the sky to modern China.” full: http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175903/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
