Ricardo Turner H

... ni piedra de un palacio, ni piedra de una audiencia, ni piedra de una iglesia...

[Ricardo Turner H @richarrrrrr]

"La propaganda funciona haciéndote sentir una ira inmediata o una certeza absoluta"

[Ricardo Turner H @richarrrrrr]

@CartonCalderon "A confesión de falta de humanidad, relevo de pruebas".... La apología del crimen.

[Geoff Keighley @geoffkeighley]

Hats off to doctoral student and podcaster Zhong Shu in Beijing, China, who did this fascinating and smart interview with Christopher Nolan about THE ODYSSEY yesterday, originally posted to Bilibili.

A great listen/watch.

[Ricardo Turner H @richarrrrrr]

@sabinaberman Exacto....hay que leer a @MazzucatoM

[Ricardo Turner H @richarrrrrr]

@SergioSarmiento @xavi244 ya reconocen que Pinochet fue un dictador....vamos de gane....Bukele?...Zelenskyy?

[Ricardo Turner H @richarrrrrr]

@aguilarcamin @jota_snchez China COMUNISTA saco de la pobreza en 30 años a mas de 700 MILLONES de personas....por otro lado, cuantos millones entraron o se estancaron en la pobreza por políticas capitalistas depredadoras?

[Ricardo Turner H @richarrrrrr]

@aguilarcamin "Domados"?....... Esto aplica para los "analistas" tambien.

[Ricardo Turner H @richarrrrrr]

@SergioSarmiento Cuando el fanatismo ideológico hace a un "intelectual" escribir estas patrañas queda claro como el sesgo puede justificarlo todo. Engles y Marx "trabajaron" igual o mas que Socrates o Schopenhauer.

[Ricardo Turner H @richarrrrrr]

@carlosbravoreg Exactament!!!!....el riduliculo de su celebrity business.

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

I was asked yesterday what neoliberalism is. This is the answer:

[Ricardo Turner H @richarrrrrr]

@SOYCarlosMota Dicen "los que NO dividen"

[Ricardo Turner H @richarrrrrr]

@abrahamendieta @LCUgalde No todos, asi de absurda la ocurrencia (que no idea), sigue habiendo quien la defiende.

[Ricardo Turner H @richarrrrrr]

Humboldt 1810....

[Pedro Salmerón Sanginés @LectorHistoria]

"México es el pais de la desigualdad. Acaso en ninguna parte la hay más espantosa en la distribución de caudales, civilización, cultivo de la tierra y población. La arquitectura de los edificios públicos y privados, la finura del ajuar de las mujeres, el aire de la sociedad; todo anuncia un extremo de esmero, que se contrapone extraordinariamente á la desnudez, ignorancia, y rusticidad del populacho.
"Yo considero que los españoles componen la décima parte de la masa total. Casi todas las propiedades y riquezas del reino están en sus manos. Los indios y las castas cultivan la tierra; sirven a la gente acomodada, y soló viven del trabajo de sus brazos. De ello resulta entre los indios y los blancos esta oposición de intereses, este odio recíproco, que tan fácilmente nace entre los que lo poseen todo y los que nada tienen, entre los dueños y los esclavos. Así es que vemos de una parte los efectos de la envidia y de la discordia, la astucia, el robo, la inclinacion á dañar a á los ricos en sus intereses; y de la otra la arrogancia, la dureza, y el deseo de abusar en todas ocasiones de la debilidad del indio. No ignoro que estos males nacen en todas partes de la grande desigualdad de condiciones. Pero en América son todavía mas espantosos porque no hay estado intermedio; es uno rico ó miserable, noble o infame de derecho y hecho. Efectivamente los indios y las castas estan en la mayor humillacion. El color de los indígenas, su ignorancia y mas que todo su miseria, los ponen a una distancia infinita de los blancos que son los que ocupan el primer lugar en la poblacion de la Nueva España. Los privilegios, que al parecer conceden las leyes a los indios, les proporcionan pocos beneficios, y casi puede decirse que les dañan..."
Alexander von Humboldt.

[Ricardo Turner H @richarrrrrr]

@IrvingGatell @JLozanoA Los ricos con privilegios se ilusionan más.

[Ricardo Turner H @richarrrrrr]

@Erickisback1 @AndresRepper @helena Excelso!

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

People defend capitalism because they confuse it with commerce. They believe “capitalism” is when people start businesses and sell things.

If people understood that the thing they call capitalism and love so much is actually just commerce and that it’s not the same thing as capitalism, they would feel very different.

This is because a local baker selling bread, a mechanic fixing cars, or an artisan selling wares on a digital storefront is a sign of commerce in a market economy, which is simply a mechanism for exchanging goods and services based on supply and demand.

Needless to say, this has existed for thousands of years before capitalism was created.

As economic historian Fernand Braudel pointed out, commerce and capitalism are not only distinct; but historically, they have often operated at cross-purposes.

According to Braudel, ordinary commerce is competitive and transparent, while capitalism is anti-competitive and deliberately opaque, making it a zone of privilege held by a small elite who bend the rules in their favour.

Braudel further argues that commerce, or the market, is horizontal, transparent, and competitive and as old as civilization itself. It involves individuals or small groups trading goods, where barriers to entry are low, no single player dominates, and profit is a reward for fulfilling a specific need.

Capitalism, meanwhile, is a specific institutional arrangement that emerged relatively recently in human history, around the 16th to 17th centuries. It is NOT just people “trading stuff”. It is instead the legal and financial system where the means of production are privately owned, and the primary objective is the continuous, infinite accumulation of capital.

Because of this accumulation-obssessed nature of capitalism, when it scales up, it seeks to eliminate the free play of commerce to protect its investments. True market competition is risky for massive capital as it drives prices down and threatens profit margins.

Braudel contended that capitalism only begins where commerce ends. It is the zone of high finance and state collusion. Because it operates across vast distances such as the 17th-century spice trade, information takes months to travel, which creates a deliberate lack of transparency.

Braudel noted that the great capitalists of the early modern era in Madeira and Venice or the Dutch East India Company, never wanted to compete in a fair, transparent market because competition slices profit margins to the bone. Instead, they secured royal charters, exclusive trading rights, and naval protection. At the same time, the state granted them legal monopolies, effectively outlawing competition.

Therefore, capitalism naturally trends toward creating monopolies and securing state interventions like bailouts, subsidies, and regulatory capture to shield itself from the very market forces it claims to champion. In fact, the most important takeaway from Braudel’s analysis is that capitalism is NOT the natural evolution or the highest form of the free market, it is its dark shadow.

So, when our lizard overlords use “free market” and “capitalism” interchangeably, they’re deliberately hiding this distinction and using the moral legitimacy of the hard-working, transparent business owner to defend the structural privileges of the protected financial elite and its regulatory capture.

If ordinary people could comprehend these distinctions, many self-described “capitalists” would realise they are just pro-commerce, and actually anti-capitalist, because it would be clear that defending “capitalism” means defending the right of a small parasite class to bypass the market entirely.

[Ricardo Turner H @richarrrrrr]

@LectorHistoria Muy interesante....de que libro es la cita?

[Ricardo Turner H @richarrrrrr]

@CartonCalderon @LuisaAlcalde @Claudiashein Y el argumento es????

[Ricardo Turner H @richarrrrrr]

@MariettoPonce "Aldeano"....pobre clasista, ignorante y ordinario.

[Ricardo Turner H @richarrrrrr]

@CartonCalderon preguntale a los holandeses.