@JavierAdaime@AlejoToroAnt@ABDELAESPRIELLA Los entes de control son paquidérmicos en comparación con la velocidad en la que se mueven las agencias de intervención extranjeras.
@AlejoToroAnt@ABDELAESPRIELLA Ése fue uno de los frentes del fraude electoral, ahora será el de un gobierno ilegítimo para, como ellos mismos dicen "dominar la narrativa", es distópico que esa narrativa sea creada artificialmente.
@1776cristiano_@gisbert_ruben Los ingenuos creyendo en elecciones arregladas. Al inflar las discusiones a proporciones sociológicas, legitiman la trampa rastrera.
@PlataformaALTO Ésta es muestra micro del #libertaradismo q es al final, fachada del fascismo, y no es descabellado. Esperan q la supresión d toda ayuda al q no tiene nada, lo desgaste y q eso eventualmente lo desaparezca sin tener q cometer su desaparición, x eso la exclusión y el desprecio.
@DCoronell@DanielSamperO Que ridiculez, todo lo que hace Coronell, llega ese otro y lo embarra de mierda.
Oiga @DCoronell, de verdad ¿Usted cree q ese tipo aporta algo a su periodismo? Si alguna vez le generó respeto por algún tipo de humor político, no es lo mismo que el sesgo rancio que ahora exhibe.
@AndreaPinkbee Para vigilar los millones de transacciones alrededor de los paraísos fiscales, ahí se encontrarían la mayoría de los delitos contra la humanidad de mayor escala de afectación.
Volkswagen, China and the breakdown of unequal exchange
The New York Times has a long, mournful piece about how Volkswagen’s troubles “were made in China”. It’s worth reading, because beneath the corporate detail lies the story of an entire imperial economic arrangement beginning to come apart.
For four decades, VW has been a major force in the Chinese car market, and for many years China supplied half or more of the company’s worldwide profits – profits that, as the Times notes, paid for “high salaries and generous benefits” for its workforce back in Germany. Which is another way of saying that a German corporation has been drawing the bulk of its wealth from Chinese labour and the Chinese market, and repatriating it to fund living standards in the imperial core.
This is unequal exchange: the systematic transfer of value from a poorer country to a richer one, even at nominally “fair” market prices.
The arrangement suited the West very well, so long as China remained where it had been assigned, at the lower end of the global value chain – assembling, manufacturing, supplying cheap labour, while design, profit and prestige stayed in the West. What the West never grasped is that China had never agreed to occupy this position on a permanent basis.
The times they are a-changin’. Chinese firms – BYD, Geely, Xiaomi – have overtaken VW not only in China but across Latin America, Africa, and now the European Union itself, VW’s home turf. The company is slashing its model range by half, and reportedly preparing to lay off up to 100,000 workers and close four European factories.
How did China manage this, with no empire to plunder and no colonies to super-exploit? By leveraging the advantages it actually has: those of a vast socialist country with a fundamentally planned economy. The NYT, almost despite itself, lists them – state-controlled banks strategically issuing low-interest capital; local governments backing the new industries; a decades-long, state-directed bet on electric vehicles that Western firms lazily dismissed. This is the patient, planned, production-oriented development that neoliberalism forbids.
That is the real source of the anguish now emanating from the pages of the Western press. It is not simply that Volkswagen built the wrong cars. It is that the mechanism by which the imperial core has been enriching itself at the expense of the periphery is corroding – and a formerly poor, semi-colonised, blockaded nation has shown that the the economic chains of imperialism can be broken.
"The Romans occupied England in the 5th century, so anyone of Roman descent has a historical claim to the land."
It's one of the best sketches I've ever seen, it is so accurate and highlights the situation in Palestine.