See the stickied comment below for an explanation and statement of our purpose, based on simple back-of-the-napkin math
E: if someone could please link this community to r/aspen and r/roaringforkvalley I would greatly appreciate it. I’ve been IP banned by the all powerful AI mod monster, like many folks on Lemmy
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It’s true, though. The US consumes far more than it creates, it is utterly reliant on a complex system of expropriation from the Global South. Michael Hudson’s Super-Imperialism: The Origin and Fundamentals of U.S. World Dominance goes over how the US in particular came to be the world’s largest Imperialist power (though I don’t agree with all of Hudson’s analysis). We can also see Lenin’s analysis in Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism or this article on Imperialism, if you’re short on time.
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To be fair, Marxists have been attacking Imperialism since it began to solidify at the turn of the 20th century, and even as it was beginning to form in Marx’s time. Any methodology and analysis that excludes Imperialism as a factor is fundamentally wrong, the US economy is not inwardly supported but externally.
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I don’t really know what you’re getting at. Read the sources I’ve linked, do some study, all it seems to me is that you’re just laughing at someone who took OP seriously and offered a serious critique on the basis of it being a critique common to Marxists, which I already said I was.
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lol, landed gentry, afraid of a fair redistribution of land?
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