"Also, “Don’t you think commercial imperialism is as bad as military conquest?” as if they’re different things."
I wonder how to convince a Ukrainian of that. I think they have very good evidence of a meaningful distinction. Of course, by this argument, Pluto is suffering from ordinary imperialism.
In the 60s and 70s whingeing about high tax wasn't an exclusively right wing thing.Because tax was really, really high. Everyone was fucked by it, around the time of hyper inflation. When the Beatles sing "if 5% appears too small, be thankful they don't take it all..." they weren't entirely joking. And it's a story of the proles worked to death doing a revolution over evil capitalists. It's way more of a left wing story than a right wing one, but there's a few lines the right wingers can chuckle at as they absorb our Marxist propaganda because they think those are for them.
"Also, “Don’t you think commercial imperialism is as bad as military conquest?” as if they’re different things."
I wonder how to convince a Ukrainian of that. I think they have very good evidence of a meaningful distinction. Of course, by this argument, Pluto is suffering from ordinary imperialism.
fair re: Ukraine, but I, like '70s Doctor Who, was mainly thinking of the British form of imperialism
The fella going down the plughole is one of my earliest memories. Fact.
In the 60s and 70s whingeing about high tax wasn't an exclusively right wing thing.Because tax was really, really high. Everyone was fucked by it, around the time of hyper inflation. When the Beatles sing "if 5% appears too small, be thankful they don't take it all..." they weren't entirely joking. And it's a story of the proles worked to death doing a revolution over evil capitalists. It's way more of a left wing story than a right wing one, but there's a few lines the right wingers can chuckle at as they absorb our Marxist propaganda because they think those are for them.