12 Nov 2024 What to read
China remains the most explicit and comprehensive critique of capitalist ways, even if the country has adopted many practices of capitalism
It is worth reading their documents to see how organised is their practice
Especially the Joint Declaration with Russia, and any of Xi’s writings in the Third Plenum
Presidential Executive Order May 7, 2024 VVP
The Joint Declaration May 16, 2024 Xi Jinping & VVP
21 July 2024 Eng_Decision_Third_Plenum_20th_Central_Committee_Cpc_2024_Zichen_Wang
21 July 2024 Xi Jingping Explanation of the Resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Further Deepening Reform Comprehensively to
The Munich Speech, 2007 - is.muni.cz/th/xlghl/DP_…
All you ever need to know about why the war in UA
Only by going to these sources does the gap become evident between habitual Western presentation of news, politics and society, and an altogether more structured reasoned approach which will not resolve into pure propaganda
I have left out many sources of information - there are many interesting Marxist or Marxist leaning
I have not included either Africa or India
Nor sources on such interesting if not crucial manifestations such as the ‘Houthis’ or better said Ansar Allah, who have defeated US Naval attempts and now airforce attempts to shut down their interventions in favour of Palestine
Nor anything on a subject much underestimated in the USEU world wide decline in fertility rates
Nor any of the Russian bloggers – but try Marat Khairullin on substack, even if he is eccentric
I have not included the many sources inside the US which contradict the propaganda such as the GAO, despite this being a US gvmt organisation, Michael Hudson etc
Nor anything from UK- except Alastair Crooke, the type of hard bitten been around brit who knows one when he sees one - strategic-culture.su - but also he will tell you a grounding in philosphy is required
Nor anything from the EU – read the EU Council and Commission reports
Nor anything from France or Germany or the Baltic States – Baltic States propaganda is very useful to decipher the fringe mania of Russophobia and long lived Nazism – FR and DE MSM contain some hints of previous semi objective journalism
All are in English versions or can easily be translated
As you can see there are probably twenty times and more of the amount of easily available information sources than the original list I gave you
You say you find China too large – this is true, but the very size and scale are accurately reflected in their documents, and in the number available in English, a small fraction of overall production – by this alone can some idea be gained of how the country dwarfs the US and the EU
This is the best place to start