Their brows will be so furrowed

This is the kind of thing that only those targeted for infiltration are likely to be aware of at the time. States still do domestic spying and infiltration of socialist groups, jail them, etc. In the UK, “Spy Cops” is a fairly recent discovery where the UK government had cops join socialist orgs undercover. They befriended people, got involved romantically, even had children before ghosting, having fulfilled their “mission”. Organizers of movements end up dead in surprising ways, with odd correlations. A conspicuous number of BLM organizers of Ferguson are now dead and I recommend looking into that.

One thing to consider is that these programs essentially worked, or at least anticommunism won through its various methods, not just terrorists. Europe has no substantial communist movements any longer outside of maybe Greece and Serbia. In most Euro places any inkling is oppressed by the liberal state apparatus and they target small groups that do things like read or protest genocide or help people unionize.

There are places where communist agitation is more active and the state violence and terrorism is greater there. The most active are Maoists like in India and The Philippines and the states there routinely arrest and murder them, generally for siding with indigenous people that want to secure their land against mining and other exploitative interests. Many are martyred for this work.

It’s less obvious but can see how the Nordic countries fall in line with imperialist structures. I’ll expound a bit but it is not in any way in disagreement.

The nordic countries lend weight to unequal IP restrictions and dollarization and the IMF, they never do anything material against imperialist wars (they actually want a piece of the pie by providing arms), and now that they are accepting their role as NATO pawns they are increasing their military budgets, cutting the welfare state, and allowing their fascistic political foemations to thrive while suppressing the left. They all openly tolerate “Israeli” genocidal fascism and even carry water for their project against domestic dissidents. Nordic countries are deeply embedded in global capital monopoly, the engine of imperialism, whether it is Norway as a petrostate or shipping logistics like in Sweden and Denmark. And they do not do this reluctantly and with policy against imperialist aims. Internally, they are fanning the flames against POC immigrants as the big scapegoat for why their lives are materially deteriorating - not their own state’s willing deindustrialization or cuts to services.

To put it simply, they are liberals. They briefly were the selective snapshot of “successful” liberalism if you didn’t peek behind the curtain of global exploitation (who grew that “luxurious” pineapple and what were they paid!?). The global financial system propped up states in their region as a means by which to oppose communists, as if communists were there to steal your children or do the genocides that imperialists constantly engaged in. That system is no longer intentionally doing this, it is neoliberal and there is no communist current in Europe. We now watch it decay into the hallmarks of fascism. The empire is pulling back its subsidies, reversing them, and all of “Europe” is collaborating for how to react to this in the worst possible way.

Okay tiger

I already explained and you avoided it and started doing this pitiful little song and dance. Maybe you can pay someone to take you seriously, because I don’t think anyone is going to do it for free.

Goodbye, chump

Nope just you. Kinda sad that your defense response is to pretend to be illiterate.

Scroll up. You’re going in circles.

And the bad faith malding continues.

You didn’t lay out any facts. Did you forget what I’m criticizing you for already?

I don’t hear any sorting! Just whining to justify yourself. Get to it!

Lemmy.world tolerates racism, same as what it wants to be, Reddit. And likely so does the society you live in.

Like I said, sort yourself out.

You think I can’t read your comments or something? This is a habit of yours.

The “researchers” in no way demonstrate that “AI” replaced any of the jobs lost. They don’t even raise the question of whether “AI” is used to discipline labor despite not being much of a productivity aid.

No, you are arrogant and this leads you to false confidence that you can correct people who know more than you by hastily googling, “studies that say China is capitalist” and quoting the first result, patting yourself on the back, and thinking, “you did well, kid”.

Get your racist shit out of here.

I’m calling your tokenizing logic racist. The lack is thought you put into the entire endeavor. I cannot imagine being this lazy, incurious, and racist. Sort yourself out.

Why?

China was a largely feudal county working its way out of brutal colonial exploitation - for which the exploiters have never paid reparations and still held on to Hong Kong for decades.

How long does it take to build productive forces and modernize while still subject to unequal exchange and general imperialism? That is a social and political question, so you tell me about where China was and what its path has been. How many other imoerialized countries jave eliminated absolute poverty, by the way? Not just taking decades to do it, but accomplish it at all.

“Two Chinese said it. What, that isn’t enough for you tankies!?”

• A definitely-not-racist liberal.

Nordic countries are subimperialist. They receive the benefits of unequal exchange, unfair trade agreements, technological advantage, and so on but rely on the explicit mechanisms of enforcement to come from prime imperialists pike the US.

What is the irony?

https://ciaotest.cc.columbia.edu/olj/shjdir/v6n1/shjdir_v6n1c.pdf

They were Fascist terrorist cells disrupting left movements.

Not to be rude but it took 2 seconds to Google this by just restricting to edu urls. Better would be reading books and the writings and testimonies of those affected. When I say it’s very easy to research I mean it is straightforward to find the materials and read them. Just reading Wikipedia and the first few Google results is not research, you have to be curious and keep going just like with anything else. NATO’s Secret Armies is a popular read.