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Havent watched this but i would be wary of Mearsheimer, the “realist” analisis might seem similar to marxism at times but it is not marxism.
Here is an article analyzing the shortcomings of his “realist” lenses, and ends up with the same conclusions as any run of the mill conspiracy theorist (jews control the world): https://gowans.blog/2024/05/21/the-israel-lobby-and-us-foreign-policy-a-realistic-marxist-view-vs-mearsheimers-realist-view/
The fundamental flaw of liberal realist analysis like Mearsheimer is they don't or refuse to understand class struggle, so a lot of their analysis boils down to conceptualizing countries on a map as differently colored geometric shapes fighting against each other. They have no way of properly analyzing internal contradictions within a given society outside of ethnoreligious divides, which they mostly do so by dividing a geometric shape into smaller geometric shapes and understanding ethnoreligious tensions through the interactions of those geometric shapes.
I think the descriptive analysis of Mearsheimer (how nation states interact with each other) is pretty good, but I don’t often agree with his prescriptive analysis, which is mostly to maintain US hegemony (but in a more peaceful manner than the liberal foreign policy currently is).
I have been watching Duran for a very long time (and stopped since) they went from a few thousand views to 100k views after the Ukraine war started.
I have been asking where are all the leftist channels with a correct position of the Ukraine war? It took at least 6 months before Western leftists even began to meekly talk about “maybe NATO shouldn’t be sending weapons to Ukraine” and still not even having a good grasp on the historical development of Russia-Ukraine relations that have been out in the open since 2013.
This is what happens when the left failed to capitalize on historic opportunities. We’ve seen that with Covid, we’ve seen that with Ukraine, and I’m sure whenever the next big opportunity comes the Western left will squander that away as well.
This is what happens when leftists stopped reading theory.
reposting from lemmygrad:
Havent watched this but i would be wary of Mearsheimer, the “realist” analisis might seem similar to marxism at times but it is not marxism.
Here is an article analyzing the shortcomings of his “realist” lenses, and ends up with the same conclusions as any run of the mill conspiracy theorist (jews control the world): https://gowans.blog/2024/05/21/the-israel-lobby-and-us-foreign-policy-a-realistic-marxist-view-vs-mearsheimers-realist-view/
The fundamental flaw of liberal realist analysis like Mearsheimer is they don't or refuse to understand class struggle, so a lot of their analysis boils down to conceptualizing countries on a map as differently colored geometric shapes fighting against each other. They have no way of properly analyzing internal contradictions within a given society outside of ethnoreligious divides, which they mostly do so by dividing a geometric shape into smaller geometric shapes and understanding ethnoreligious tensions through the interactions of those geometric shapes.
Yea these guys always end up talking about judeo-christian values vs orthodox vs taoists and whatever 😂
I think the descriptive analysis of Mearsheimer (how nation states interact with each other) is pretty good, but I don’t often agree with his prescriptive analysis, which is mostly to maintain US hegemony (but in a more peaceful manner than the liberal foreign policy currently is).
The Duran is also very reactionary. Their comments are filled with people spouting fascist rhetoric. Very weird.
I have been watching Duran for a very long time (and stopped since) they went from a few thousand views to 100k views after the Ukraine war started.
I have been asking where are all the leftist channels with a correct position of the Ukraine war? It took at least 6 months before Western leftists even began to meekly talk about “maybe NATO shouldn’t be sending weapons to Ukraine” and still not even having a good grasp on the historical development of Russia-Ukraine relations that have been out in the open since 2013.
This is what happens when the left failed to capitalize on historic opportunities. We’ve seen that with Covid, we’ve seen that with Ukraine, and I’m sure whenever the next big opportunity comes the Western left will squander that away as well.
This is what happens when leftists stopped reading theory.