Thank you so much Thom for putting together all of this history and analysis.
For a long time, I was skeptical of this viewpoint - having been very influenced by Chomsky and various things Chomsky said over the years about how we should not be provoking nuclear war with Russia.
But recently i focused more on the work of Timothy Snyder who…
Thank you so much Thom for putting together all of this history and analysis.
For a long time, I was skeptical of this viewpoint - having been very influenced by Chomsky and various things Chomsky said over the years about how we should not be provoking nuclear war with Russia.
But recently i focused more on the work of Timothy Snyder who put together an enormously valuable range of materials about Ukraine, history, and how much there is to understand about this conflict that we just don't generally know about in the United States. I think much of it is similar to what you have covered here, and really deserves to be understood.
"Yale courses" online recently made available the entire Ukraine course that Professor Snyder taught this past fall and it's an amazing resource to have ... it's free and you can sit and watch him go through this entire historical analysis, which again I think is very consistent with the details and conclusions you are covering here.
So thanks once again for heroic, serious, probing, scholarly journalism.
Not to pick on professor wolff, because i value him greatly and have attended his live lectures, but even professor wolff is prone to referring to Ukraine as "the Ukraine", which professor Snyder points kind of implies that it's a region and not really a country.
Brave New Europe is, in my estimation, a very sophisticated agitprop publication, published with guidance from Russia.
Their leif motif is not to defend Russia, but make a lot of noise about the blemishes of the west and Ukraine. That is a very effective form of propaganda, changing the subject ns redirecting the question from the perp to the accused.
You see that in court, where the prosecution or the plaintiff's attorney in cases which involve police misconduct or murder, tries to absolve the cop by hauling the victim over the coals.
All considered if Richard Wolff is not a Tankie, he walks and talks like one
Thank you so much Thom for putting together all of this history and analysis.
For a long time, I was skeptical of this viewpoint - having been very influenced by Chomsky and various things Chomsky said over the years about how we should not be provoking nuclear war with Russia.
But recently i focused more on the work of Timothy Snyder who put together an enormously valuable range of materials about Ukraine, history, and how much there is to understand about this conflict that we just don't generally know about in the United States. I think much of it is similar to what you have covered here, and really deserves to be understood.
"Yale courses" online recently made available the entire Ukraine course that Professor Snyder taught this past fall and it's an amazing resource to have ... it's free and you can sit and watch him go through this entire historical analysis, which again I think is very consistent with the details and conclusions you are covering here.
So thanks once again for heroic, serious, probing, scholarly journalism.
Not to pick on professor wolff, because i value him greatly and have attended his live lectures, but even professor wolff is prone to referring to Ukraine as "the Ukraine", which professor Snyder points kind of implies that it's a region and not really a country.
Richard Wolff is an old line Marxist, he suffers from myopia, as so ,many., right and left do, his myopia is the class struggle, as if that were the end all. Here is his latest https://braveneweurope.com/richard-d-wolff-the-social-changes-we-need-the-class-obstacle-we-face
Brave New Europe is, in my estimation, a very sophisticated agitprop publication, published with guidance from Russia.
Their leif motif is not to defend Russia, but make a lot of noise about the blemishes of the west and Ukraine. That is a very effective form of propaganda, changing the subject ns redirecting the question from the perp to the accused.
You see that in court, where the prosecution or the plaintiff's attorney in cases which involve police misconduct or murder, tries to absolve the cop by hauling the victim over the coals.
All considered if Richard Wolff is not a Tankie, he walks and talks like one