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23. I respect the fact that brainy people like to explore economic theories

Mon Mar 2, 2015, 06:09 PM

Mar 2015

and I definitely overreacted to Richard Wolff. It's just because he has been posted on DU by the actual supporters of Putin's fascism here, so I thought he was yet another Trojan Horse.

I have to apologize that I'm no longer too good for academic explorations into theoretical alternatives or philosophical possibilities. I think it's great that people like to discuss these things but I don't. I like Coltrane but I'm more of a Sex Pistols/Pussy Riot kind of person.

The OP is unfortunate because it's a thinly veiled attack on the West vis a vis Ukraine, and a thinly-veiled distraction from the devastation being enacted on Ukraine by Putin's Russia.

I know about the downsides of the IMF/World Bank machinations. But the main thing is that I travelled thru Europe soon after the Berlin Wall came down, and I saw the results of the post WW2 US/West/capitalism's influence, with all its faults, on Western Europe, versus the effect of so-called Communism/Stalinism/Kleptocracy on Central and Eastern Europe. Not just in economic terms but in basic freedoms, flourishing of art. I mean, just West Germany vs East Germany. France vs Czech Republic. There a little comparison to be made--one side of the wall had the closest to what the world has achieved in providing basic requirements of material and freedom, the other side was a disaster. (And I no longer think it was even a disaster of an economic theory, I think that theory was a ruse to enact a totalitarian kleptocracy--one that existed before Communism with the Tsars and continues now in the form of Putin's Russia.)

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Wars for the Oligarchs, Has the IMF Annexed Ukraine? [View all] mother earth Feb 2015 OP

Shock Doctrine. pa28 Feb 2015 #1

And don't forget "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man", it's all the same, blood for profits to mother earth Feb 2015 #2

OMG. Conspiracy Theory/ reversal of reality by the Kremlin's latest shill, "Michael Hudson" uhnope Feb 2015 #3

I'll ck out those links later, BUT mother earth Feb 2015 #6

You are too kind libodem Feb 2015 #8

Everyday we spend here, we are telling people exactly who we are. Why not take that opportunity to mother earth Feb 2015 #9

when using sarcasm, you have to be more careful uhnope Mar 2015 #12

Where was I sarcastic? I thought I made myself crystal clear on all fronts. My progressive nature mother earth Mar 2015 #13

Here's the definition of sarcasm uhnope Mar 2015 #14

No need to define sarcasm, there is no sarcasm in reply #6, I stand by that. mother earth Mar 2015 #15

This message was self-deleted by its author uhnope Mar 2015 #16

Uhnope, I replied about Nemstov on your OP posted here. As far as my lesson on mother earth Mar 2015 #17

OK thx uhnope Mar 2015 #19

TY for this reply. I honestly applaud your candor. This has become painfully obvious to me, and mother earth Mar 2015 #20

ohy uhnope Mar 2015 #21

I'm hoping we can get back on topic on this OP, and maybe different economic theories can mother earth Mar 2015 #22

I respect the fact that brainy people like to explore economic theories uhnope Mar 2015 #23

I think economists have a far greater grasp on what is playing out in the Ukraine, Greece, and mother earth Mar 2015 #24

No I don't think so. All the economists laid end to end would never reach a conclusion uhnope Mar 2015 #25

Here we go again, rinse, repeat. I totally disagree, I don't think you are actually listening to mother earth Mar 2015 #28

What part of ""Well, when Kiev went to war against Eastern Ukraine" is not BS to you? uhnope Mar 2015 #32

You have made your "points", but you are very transparent and it isn't me afraid of a boogieman mother earth Mar 2015 #33

Why can't you answer the question. + If you're so concerned, reply to post #18 uhnope Mar 2015 #34

DeSwiss is completely capable of answering your reply. Stop with disruption of mother earth Mar 2015 #35

lol. Calling BS is not "disruption." Neither is calling out anti-Semites like Pound uhnope Mar 2015 #36

There is no "thinly veiled attack" to help Putin, the attack on Ukraine is about empire & this mother earth Mar 2015 #26

This message was self-deleted by its author uhnope Mar 2015 #27

You really need to take time to read. NO, not Naomi Wolff, Naomi Klein. You posted an OP mother earth Mar 2015 #29

ok ok I read it wrong uhnope Mar 2015 #30

You sure do. nt mother earth Mar 2015 #31

I'm going to add a link that explains one of the biggest lessons from the last cold war, mother earth Feb 2015 #7

Wars of any sort create jobs ...that's how low we have gone. L0oniX Feb 2015 #4

War is the Capitalist's Primary Business Model DeSwiss Feb 2015 #5

DeSwiss, I wish I could K & R every response you ever give on any of my OP's. You are always a mother earth Feb 2015 #10

I often wonder if people truly get what you bring to the table...here's some info on Jacque Fresco. mother earth Feb 2015 #11

Ezra Pound on Economics? What next, Protocols of the Elders of Zion ???? uhnope Mar 2015 #18

. libodem Mar 2015 #37

Paid trolls that disrupt discussion boards. nt mother earth Mar 2015 #38