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[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 78 points 1 year ago

fixation on food security

caring more about feeding people than feeding profits makes you a monster to The Economist

it's not the feeding people that they're even mad about so much as the freedom of action that a country has when it doesn't rely on trade with other nations for essentials like food and energy

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago

Leverage. It's all about leverage.

[-] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

B-B-B-BUT muh COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE. This isn't PARETO EFFICIENT, and that's against the RULES. (Please ignore the inseparable intertwining of economic and political power and just play along like dupes)

[-] IceWallowCum@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Guevara has a bunch of speeches about this. IIRC, he differentiated between "political freedom", the power of a people to make their own decisions and act on them, and "economical freedom", the power of a people to decide over their production and trade. He argued that a revolution aims for the former; after that, the post-revolution state builds the latter.

damn that sounds really good. I'll have to go looking for those

[-] IceWallowCum@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

This is the book, but it's in Portuguese. It's in chapter one: political sovereignty and economical independence

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