For a while, China also looked like it was going too rightwards. This is a necessary step to trick the Westoids to invest in your country before you rug-pull them with communism later, ala Xi Jinping.
Vietnam is about 10-20 years behind China in their development. Once you understand that, the steps they take are basically a repeat of China.
In other words, part of the Iranian bourgeoisie is a semi-comprador class that must be liquidated in some way to stop stalling Iran’s national development with the global south.
Meanwhile the AfD is getting increasingly popular, but the German liberals don’t care about that. Speedrunning a repeat of history they are.
Bes D. Marx made an amazing series documenting how German liberals and social democrats betrayed the working class to ally with the fascists:
Seems German liberals view their sordid history as a guide, not a warning.
The Deprogram boys should do that next time, once Maduro walks free from his sham New York trial.
Depends on how small the Eastern European countries you’re referring to are.
I personally believe that any country with a population under 80 million people is essentially irrelevant in global politics barring specific circumstances, and should probably merge with its neighbors to get more leverage for development.
I’ve written earlier that:
Countries <80 million have markets that are too miniscule to be good bargaining chips when negotiating with capitalist companies, unfortunately eliminating the option of pressuring foreign companies into technology transfer agreements ala China. This hurts their industrial and technological growth, placing them at the mercy of larger countries’ tech.
Countries that small also do not have enough workforce and internal market to foster vibrant, holistic domestic industry on their own. There simply is not enough money or workforce to cultivate the funds necessary to conduct advanced R&D to continuously keep up with the world in all aspects of industry. Oftentimes, this forces small countries to import most of their manufactured goods.
Lastly, countries that small also do not have enough money or workforce to build up militaries strong enough to go toe to toe against 100+ million population countries. While they may be strong enough to defend the country itself, they are not able to be expeditionary and act on geopolitical objectives abroad. If under threat, small countries ultimately have to seek protection from allied larger countries, again jeopardising sovereignty.
For these reasons, it is imperative for small countries to form unions to get to ~100 million population. At that size, they have the weight to push for industrial development and geopolitical interests.
Some countries are already doing this. Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso have formed the Alliance of Sahel States, with a total population of 71 million, for the express purpose of establishing a common market, industrialization, military cooperation, and eventually unifying into a single sovereign state.
Of course, merging into larger states is unlikely to happen under bourgeois control because national bourgeoisies like to enjoy the minor insignificant spoil of leading a tiny country rather than joining up for the greater good. Also, Western capitalist powers enjoy the ease of pushing around these tiny countries, which might become harder to push around if they merged into larger collectives.
It’s about time Iran rounds up and executes these US and Israeli-funded terror cells. May Venezuela and other anti-imperialist states learn from this example.
The research around it is true, in that believing you can get better at something helps you get better at it more than if you think you are “genetically predisposed” to a certain level of performance in said task.
I think your experience of it being infantilizing is more due to the general cheesiness of psych and health learned in school when you’re young. When you’re young, you’re told all these ideas about eating healthy, sleeping early, adopting healthy psych techniques to help you succeed, like the growth mindset. At the time, we often disregard them as just irrelevant things that adults tell us, only to find out when we’re older that everything they said was right and they just kind of sucked at explaining it.
I myself am going through this revelation of eating healthier, sleeping better, learning useful techniques in therapy that all were touched on in grade school, but I didn’t take seriously back then until I ran into the problems I feel now.
We see from the failures of the USSR’s socialist state-building attempts after WW2 that unless the people of a country fought and built their socialist system themselves, they will be more susceptible to counter-revolutionary ideas that things could be done some “nebulous better way”.
This is a big reason why you see so many Eastern European dumbasses who think that everything wrong with their lives is due to the Soviet Union, forgetting that they were all shithole countries before the Soviet Union built them up.
Research shows that people put more pride and value in something they build themselves, termed the IKEA effect. The same seems true of governance systems.
Recently, the r/TheDeprogram subreddit was threatened with banning by Reddit admins. I got the go-ahead to mirror the subreddit wiki on lemmygrad in case. I have made a few formatting changes to better suit Markdown formatting and corrected a few typos. Full credit goes to the original authors of the wiki.
Whenever you take a look inside r/israelexposed, you’ll see that Iran is infinitely more moral than all Israelis.