• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    you think the products made from the resources from southern countries don’t end up in post-soviet countries?

    I think they don’t benefit from it. Products made from the resources from southern countries end up in southern countries too! That’s not the point.

    The benefit of superexploitation is being able to make commodities artificially cheap in the imperial core relative to wages in the imperial core. In post-soviet countries these products aren’t actually cheap relative to their own incomes, they have to pay a significant portion of their wages to afford them.

    The “shock therapy” didn’t destroy all social programs, it restarted the economy and social programs got rebuilt. Overall a net positive.

    I’m working my way through Red Hangover, and that really doesn’t seem to be the case. Maybe 1 in 10 people living in the post-soviet sphere have benefitted. Neoliberalism is nightmare.

    The fuck kind of a stupid question is this? Obviously US wouldn’t allow it, but it’s not like the EU would allow it either.

    So there you go. Sweden benefits from Western militarism.