• TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee
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    15 hours ago

    I find it interesting that people here are falling over themselves to defend a capitalist economist. Is supporting Russian nationalism so important that we now defend a participant in the destruction of the Soviet system?

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      14 hours ago

      You’re arguing with straw men. I’m not defending capitalism nor the destruction of the Soviet Union. Nobody is confusing Sachs for a comrade. I said, “as capitalist positions go.” There’s a difference between Keynesianism and neocolonial asset stripping of the commons.

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        14 hours ago

        You’re arguing with straw men. I’m not defending capitalism

        I claimed you were defending a capitalist economist, which you are.

        My original statement was to take anything he said with a grain of salt and that he pioneered what would one day be labeled as shock therapy.

        Which people then claimed he didn’t do, based on his own claims.