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Jeffrey Sachs Explosive Address at the EU Parliament (www.youtube.com)

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I find it interesting that people here are falling over themselves to defend a capitalist economist. Is supporting Russian nationalism so important that we now defend a participant in the destruction of the Soviet system?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

You’re arguing with straw men. I’m not defending capitalism nor the destruction of the Soviet Union. Nobody is confusing Sachs for a comrade. I said, “as capitalist positions go.” There’s a difference between Keynesianism and neocolonial asset stripping of the commons.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 12 hours ago

You’re arguing with straw men. I’m not defending capitalism

I claimed you were defending a capitalist economist, which you are.

My original statement was to take anything he said with a grain of salt and that he pioneered what would one day be labeled as shock therapy.

Which people then claimed he didn't do, based on his own claims.