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none of your links refer to Australia, they just seem to be a general vibe

progressive.international/wire/…/en

And if you intensify the exploitation of your domestic resources, you undermine the ecological basis of production. Capital, therefore, requires some kind of “outside”, an external frontier, where it can exploit labour and nature with impunity, and where it can externalize social and ecological costs.

We live in Australia, we are the major exporter of resources?

dfat.gov.au/…/australias-goods-and-services-by-to…

Not only that but I’m not sure how well we pay Afghanistan for its resources it’ll still be a corrupt islamic shithole.

It feels real simple to be like, the south is poor because of the west, all you need to do to counter this is find a country that was poor and now isn’t anymore. Singapore, Israel, Qatar, etc

Even eastern european countries as they shake off communism and socialism and embrace capitalism have had considerable improvement in quality of life

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Kayel@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
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- Eyekaytee@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  Yes, this is a Marxist analysis
  
  oh no wonder i was so confused, I’m like the economics of this are weirdly based on vibes, poor innocent third world countries exploited by the big bad west🥴
  
  Australia does not manufacture most of the goods we consume
  
  Right, if anything this puts us closer to the global south than other first world nations because the majority of our exports are commodities and resources instead of global north high value manufacturing and services
  
  I am arguing, in the medium term, we will not get as good of a deal as we have been historically
  
  With who? Our biggest partners are China, Japan, South Korea and United States, with the exception of China which still scrapes into global south because of its currency manipulations and deliberately keeps it’s workers poor (there’s that communism 😂) … who feels like they’re getting fucked over by our trade deals? The only one I can think of is Trump who we have a negative trade balance with so we’ve not really been a focus at all.
  
  We have a positive trade balance and mainly trade with the global north (outside of china and india), I think I’m focused on Australia because you posted in Australia, you’re focused on a grand marxist theory that explains everything and losing all the details in the picture and thinking maybe of continental europe ?
  
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  - Kayel@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
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    Eyekaytee@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    
    The USSR took a backwards country of starving peasants and turned it into the worlds greatest superpower while defeating the Nazi’s
    
    Worlds greatest superpower? This one?
    
    American “Lend-Lease” support sent to the USSR not only tipped the scales in Eastern Europe but enabled the victory on the Russian Front.
    
    Assisting the Soviet war effort American Lend-Lease eventually transferred over $11 billion dollars of goods to Soviet Russia—roughly the equivalent of $250 billion today. Those shipments included 400,000 vehicles, 14,000 aircraft, 13,000 tanks, 8,000 tractors, 4.5 million tons of food, and 2.7 million tons of petroleum products, as well as millions of blankets, uniforms, and boots, and 107,000 tons of cotton
    
    nationalww2museum.org/…/lend-lease-eastern-front
    
    I assume you’ll be the first in line to thank America :D
    
    You also forgot to mention this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1930–1933
    
    Major factors included the forced collectivization of agriculture as a part of the First Five-Year Plan and forced grain procurement from farmers. These factors in conjunction with a massive investment in heavy industry decreased the agricultural workforce.[11] It is estimated that 5.7[9] to 8.7[10][11] million people died from starvation across the Soviet Union.
    
    Oopsie woopsie 😂 bloody hell that’s so bad though, so glad communism died out
    
    I also have no idea why you’d use a failed state as an example of just how great marxism is, I guess it’s slim pickings when economic reality hits economic idealism, also funny how literally all the break away soviet states had popular revolutions away from communism and none of them have any intention of going back
    
    It’s for the return to Australian values, the socialist ones of the post war era. An era which the baby boomers grew up in and then preceded to gut for their profit
    
    Most Australians are doing pretty alright, in the context of the world we have a super high quality of living, we live like kings, unlimited food, entertainment, access to the worlds knowledge, we live a life unrivalled, the biggest protest we had recently was for… Palestine lol? a place a million miles away which has nothing to do with us
    
    The biggest problem is housing which is largely because again, we live like kings, more single people living in 2 and 3 bedroom houses/apartments than ever before, many elderly and simply holed up in massive houses by themselves due to stamp duty making it uneconomical to downsize
    
    You seem to be solving a problem that largely isn’t there
    
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