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On who is responsible for prolonging the Ukraine War + your questions & criticisms
We start off by discussing whether the Zelensky tail is wagging the NATO dog, and what possible exits to conflict there might be.
Then, in the main section, we respond to listener comments: we talk about the possibility of a "Chinese Dream", what the point of economic growth is, the monarchy and modernisation, and whether 'fascism' is an appropriate term for the far right today.
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John O'Riordan
Bunga listeners are bratty subs
Alex McAuliffe
As I’ve been catching up on the past month’s episodes, it is a bit funny how much angrier Phil sounds on each subsequent appearance… hope he’s doing alright
Eli S
Ok, so actually a coherent thought on the question of an aspirational "Chinese Dream". I think the CCP is caught in a bit of a trap that Marxist-Leninist states tend to run into, which is why they can't offer a "Chinese Dream" or a communist vision of freedom. The traditional Marxist vision of freedom is free time, the "realm of freedom" outside the daily labor of reproducing yourself and your society. But your traditional Leninist state pretty much views unapproved, non-conforming civil society activities as imperialist threats, almost by definition. You wind up with a vision of freedom in which the growth in the forces of production generates more and more leisure time that can then be spent conforming to the party-state's vision of the good life and is otherwise considered a threat to society. A contradiction within the "Communist" program. So eventually you can either require the "new communist man" to be a pathological altruist whose primary goal in life is to uphold the communist society and Communist Party, or, as most ML parties eventually do, you switch from offering a vision of freedom to a vision of ethical living and virtue.
