Posted on 08/04/2025 2:25:32 AM PDT by RandFan
@NuryVittachi
"The American empire is over," Richard D. Wolff, U.S. professor of international affairs, tells Al Jazeera. Already the biggest economic power on the planet is not the US and its allies, but China and the BRICS. But no U.S. politician dares to tell the people: "It's over."
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There is a 3 minute clip at link
I can't believe you would post such crap.
Blame the twitter algo!
What is he saying that isn’t true? He spoke about China and BRICs in the clip
I also made clear to label his politics as Marxist
China is where it is economically because it stole its technology from the U.S. and then sold it back to us in products it produced using that technology.
American Empire is an ideal: Freedom and Free Markets. If you think Freedom is done, you're an idiot too.
It's one thing to know your enemy, but Wolff is nothing but a propagandist.
Freedom is decidedly NOT done.
Ron Paul used to speak about the “American Empire” (on the right) he pointed out all the military bases around the world and was saying it’s unsustainable particularly with the debts being taken on.
There is no doubt there has been gross mismanagement over the last 15-20 years. Think Dick “deficits dont matter” Cheney
Does Rand Paul pay you? Get a life.
Called the American influence, “the empire”...the Prof should be ....well....he has his right to be wrong ..y’know...since the idiot prof calls it an empire....maybe we should do it.....we can easily take Canada, Mexico, Central America, South America. Australia, New Zealand, Philippines, Africa....then outproduce and take away the market shares and expansion of the rest....let the weakest of the rest fall into our laps...
I would assume the prof would like to be preserved like Lenin for a hundred years before his body is oxidized and hydrated by ambient moisture and held together by Van Der Waals forces...just to prove how right he is...
What exactly is “drivel”?
His China and BRICs statement in the clip is true as far as I know
Ron Paul uses the ‘empire’ term frequently. It’s not new to me at least
No he doesn’t!
You dont like the empire term? Ron Paul was using it decades ago. It’s hardly new to some of us...
Drivel is anything that comes out of the mouth of Richard Wolff. Every sentient human being knows that.
Watta drip.
Do you have a mind of your own or do you just worship Rand full time.
I stop reading when I see the author’s first name is Professor which tells me the author has no real world experience and therefore I will be reading whatever is in his head. I can do that with my 5 year old’s scribblings
There are good ones and bad ones
I do not endorse the authors views on a range of topics as some would make out
That’s why I put a label
BTW, notice they use the term “Marxian” and not “Marxist”. That’s a new one
When was there ever an “American empire”?
America was adding territory through the Spanish-American War; but, with some exceptions, these territories were subsequently admitted as states when they were ready for statewide or, in the cases of Cuba and the Philippines, granted independence when they were ready for independence. (Puerto Rico remains a territory, but it is in such fiscal difficulty that it can’t or shouldn’t be admitted as a state.)
In the Marxist view, military alliances, trade, investment and other economic relations, and tourism and cultural exchanges constitute “an empire.” Accordingly, Australia is a “colony” of the United States. Or, is it the other way around? Did we become a colony of Australia upon the popularity of Crocodile Dundee movies and Outback restaurants?
The problem with communists is that if you ever get them to define what they mean by words such as “empire,” you find they don’t make any sense. Australia isn’t and never was part of an American empire, nor we part of an Australian empire. Rather, we both have been in free association with each other. Free association, that’s alien to the communist mind. They only believe in power and subjugation.
Now, is America losing ground to other countries in the race to be #1? Yes, mostly for two reasons: First, because the countries that were devastated by WWII, like Germany and Japan, have long-ago recovered. And, second, because many countries have adopted market-oriented economies and democratic governments and, so, have joined in the march of progress. Think of Chile in Latin America and Poland in eastern Europe.
It was easy for us to be #1 when we were the only major country that wasn’t destroyed during WWII. But, that was like a big hulking man competing against women in NCAA swimming. Even though things are more competitive today, we should want all countries to strive to be great again, or great for the first time. We should focus on MAGA and in fairness in our military alliances and in trade.
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