Search results

there's an interesting interview with ns lyons in which he makes a similar point about the ukraine: you will have to pull identity politics from the collective West’s cold, dead, irradiated hands before we give that up. Just a few weeks into this war and it’s now clear that the gravity of our...

del noce was writing in 1970 iirc and is obviously describing a dynamic which arose in the 60s, so I'm not sure where you've got this time frame from

I dont remember saying it happened within the last twenty to thirty years

but it turns out that that combination is incredibly germaine to capitalism

for the right its that the leftist vision of man holds the day, and for the left it's that the rightist structure of power is still in place

but the precise reason for disenfranchisement is not the same

left and right has merged into one "management technique in service of the strongest"

del noce's commentary on the debate bw thomas molnar and Jean-Marie domenech are pertinent here:

in fact both are right imo

indeed

how can you make sense of that? only one can be right, surely?

the weird thing about ideology today is that both right and left think that theyve lost

I just read this thread in its entirety - and by "read" I mean didnt read - and I can only conclude that I have no idea what its about

it's extremely grim, and in all likelihood a foreshadowing of even worse horrors to come. but it cant preclude peace talks. assuming the war eventually ends it will ultimately do so around the negotiating table.

but crashing the rouble as a mechanism for ending the war does not seem to be playing out in the way that ppl may have imagined

absolutely

jp koning has a nice little blog post about this distinction here: http://jpkoning.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-dollar-isnt-meme.html?m=1 The dollar-as-meme claim is often made by cryptocurrency enthusiasts. That this idea would emanate from the cryptocurrency community makes sense, since...

tbf I think the capital controls have played a big part in stabilising the value of the rouble. theres a good twitter thread about the effect of forcing exporters to sell their fx to the central bank here:

I think the unfortunate reality is that any kind of conceivable compromise which might end the war entails a "win" for Russia which they obviously dont deserve in any moral sense

perverse after effect of sanctions: demand for roubles goes down due to sanctions and up due to second order after effects of sanctions on commodity prices, netting out at zero or thereabouts