Milos Uzelac

As the US accelerates its withdrawal from Afghanistan, China is worried about the instability to come. In May, after a series of explosions in Kabul that killed 60 people including several schoolgirls, China’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said America’s “abrupt” withdrawal was a factor in the violence. Hua said the US needed to withdraw its troops “in a responsible manner” that avoids “inflicting more turmoil and suffering on the Afghan people.” What she didn’t say, however, is what China fears the most about America’s troop withdrawal from Afghanistan: a revival of the fundamentalist East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) and its cross-border agitation and terrorism in China’s volatile Xinjiang region. The ETIM, also known as the Turkistan Islamic Movement, is an ethnic Uighur militant group active in Afghanistan that has long sought to achieve independence for Xinjiang, which it envisions as a future “East Turkestan.” The ETIM is also active in Syria’s civil war, where battle-hardened fighters have largely been grouped in Idlib and other northern regions. The United Nations has categorized the group as a “terror organization” since 2002. Curiously, the former Donald Trump administration removed ETIM from America’s terror list in November 2020, saying at the time there was “no credible evidence” that ETIM still exists. As the Taliban surges north in the wake of America’s troop withdrawal, it seems likely only a matter of time before the militant group overruns Kabul and its US-backed government, and establishes in its place a new “Islamic Emirate”, as it has repeatedly said it aims to do. A Taliban takeover, analysts and observers believe, will open new space for groups like ETIM to recruit and radicalize Uighur youth, many of whom are already reportedly deeply disaffected by reports of Beijing’s Uighur “vocational camps” and authoritarian control of Muslim religious practices in Xinjiang. For Beijing, however, the concern is not merely the spread of radical ideas among Uighur Muslims in neighboring Afghanistan. Rather, it is the threat a resurgence of extremism could pose to its strategic Belt and Road Initiative in the region, not least in Pakistan. Four of China’s six so-called Silk Road networks, including the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), emanate from or pass through Xinjiang. Those roads aim to connect China with Russia, Central, Southern and Western Asia, reaching the Mediterranean Sea. Specifically, Silk Road networks other than the CPEC that run through Xinjiang include the China-Central Asia-West Asia Economic Corridor, the New Eurasia Land Bridge Economic Corridor and the China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Corridor. While the departure of US and NATO forces from neighboring Afghanistan is no doubt broadly welcomed by China, it also puts Beijing in a new strategic quandary – one that could make or break its BRI ambitions in the region. To be sure, Beijing’s concerns about the ETIM in Afghanistan are not simply an exaggerated threat assessment to justify its authoritarian control of Uighurs in Xinjiang. In 2008, China’s Ministry of Public Security released a list of eight “terrorists” linked to ETIM with detailed charges against them, including threats to bomb the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Despite the Trump administration’s denials, a recent United Nations Security Council report confirmed that ETIM not only exists and operates in Afghanistan but is also pursuing a “transnational agenda.” According to the report, ETIM is among the “foremost” foreign terror groups operating in Afghanistan. The report says ETIM is situated mainly in Badakhshan, Kunduz and Takhar provinces and that Abdul Haq (Memet Amin Memet) remains the group’s leader. The report goes on to say approximately 500 ETIM fighters operate in the north and northeast of Afghanistan, primarily in Raghistan and Warduj districts, Badakhshan, with financing based in Raghistan. Those northern areas connect with China through the narrow Wakhan Corridor, a potential passageway for Xinjiang-bound militants. The UN report says ETIM collaborates with Lashkar-e-Islam and Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, two banned Pakistani militant groups. It also said ETIM “has a transnational agenda to target Xinjiang, China, and the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, as well as Chitral, Pakistan, which poses a threat to China, Pakistan and other regional States.” Beijing has been pursuing a multi-faceted strategy to counter ETIM’s threat. While it has stressed a “responsible” withdrawal of US and NATO forces meaning a withdrawal that comes only after a political settlement is reached between Kabul and the Taliban, it has equally established relations with both warring sides. While it has offered Kabul to train and advise its security forces, with reports in the Chinese media even indicating a possible deployment of Chinese forces in Afghanistan to prevent ETIM fighters from using the Wakhan corridor in Badakhshan province to cross unchecked into Xinjiang, it has also offered Taliban “development” in exchange for peace. Beijing’s definition of peace, however, does not simply refer to the absence of civil war in Afghanistan. Rather, it also and mainly stresses the importance of not providing any safe heavens to ETIM fighters. Observers and analysts, however, doubt that the Taliban will force the ETIM out of existence at Beijing’s request. On the contrary, the Taliban are going to need as many fighters on its side as possible to win its war for Kabul. President Ashraf Ghani vowed this week to launch a “counter-offensive” amid widespread reports of national troops defecting to the Taliban as it advances northward in the wake of the US troop withdrawal. That likely means that the ETIM will not only be one of the chief beneficiaries of the Taliban’s war to establish an Islamic Emirate in Afghanistan but will also likely be able to carve out the space to continue its pro-Uighur campaign in Xinjiang. Its position will also be strengthened by the presence of other jihadi groups, including al Qaeda and the Islamic State in Afghanistan (IS-K), both of which sympathize with the so-called “Uighur cause.” In 2017, the Iraq-Syria based ISIS released a video of Chinese Uighur Muslims threatening to return home and “shed blood like rivers.” The 30-minute video shows Uighur fighters in training interspersed with images from inside the ethnic minority’s Xinjiang homeland, replete with scenes of Chinese police on patrol. The fact that the US has already withdrawn ETIM from its terror organization list means that the militant outfit has likely had the space to grow its logistical and financial resources, manpower and weaponry. Growing indications that Turkey – home to a sizable Uighur population including thousands who have fled persecution in Xinjiang – may play a direct military and diplomatic role in Afghanistan after America’s withdrawal also raises risks for China. Turkey’s now well-known use of jihadi fighters in Syria for essentially geopolitical objectives will make its future presence in Afghanistan unsettling for Beijing. Turkey, now pursuing pan-Islamist “neo-Ottoman” ambitions, has been championing the Uighurs cause for some time. When China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited Turkey in March 2021, about a thousand Uighur protesters were allowed to gather in Istanbul to protest his diplomatic presence. In that sense, China is not only facing a few hundred ETIM fighters in Afghanistan. Rather, it could face a combined force of thousands of jihadis backed by state and non-state actors with direct territorial access to Xinjiang via Afghanistan. Analysts suggest China’s position is also compromised by the lack of any significant on-the-ground human intelligence networks and an ability to intercept or pre-empt anti-China terrorist formations in Afghanistan. Recent reports indicate Beijing is trying to get a grip on the situation: In December 2020, a Chinese spy ring was arrested in Afghanistan, according to media reports. Although Beijing denied the allegation, Ahmad Zia Saraj, the chief of Afghanistan’s National Directorate Security, confirmed to the Afghan Parliament that the arrests had indeed been made. What information the reputed spies may have gathered and transmitted to Beijing before their apprehensions, however, is unknown. Source: https://asiatimes.com/2021/07/the-terror-group-china-fears-the-most/?__twitter_impression=true

My father has resistance, fear and skepticism about the vaccination and virus out of this very reason because he feels its government imposed and propagated in order for it to pay-off for the vaccines that it bought and help transnationals like Pfizer and other bio-tech companies who them made the deal with them to make record profits. He does not see the deaths here where I live to be enough to justify this government imposition of power and prolonged lock downs that shut down the events he used to attend and habits that he used to do. He sees it as a overblown conspiracy and opportunity by the government and the party that controls it here to solidfy its power here through fear of overblowing Covid and to advertise vaccines and vaccination in order justify for why they bought them in such a quantity. I realise this is a conspiracist reasoning born out of fear and irritation of endangering one's habits and survival through seeing it as a planned government stripping on one's usual rights and privileges here in order for a group holding to fortify its claim on power. And focusing exclusively on one's self irritation and not focusing and caring about the state of others in the country. Should probably watch the how conspiracy theories work to understand my father's psychology better in the last sixteen months.

This I presume applies to all nationalities and descents in the world and for the majority of people living in all countries currently existing today, when being programmed, instructed to and stuck to act in that identity for the collective constraint. For example I developed a bias to look more favorably to a Yugoslav or common South Slav identity that I feel is also a part of me then the Serbian one because I feel from my POV it fosters more tolerant and healthy relationships with people in the region where I live with whom I share an almost exact same language but I cannot exercise that identity in my environment freely because nobody here believes in it anymore and there is no shared consensus about it. It would be akin as if telling the people here I am an Atlantean from some past glorious kingdom and of course some other people that lived within the territory of that country never viewed or accepted that identity favourbly as it felt they are not the part of the same cultural and ethnic descent as other people who have claimed to form that country on that basis and was therefore seen alien and foreign imposed on them such as the Kosovar Albanians even though there existed an official policy in Yugoslavia where you could choose what nationality you identify with based on your own beliefs, preference, feelings or degrees of patriotism on what you identify with the most, for example Serbian or Yugoslavian. It seems to me here that there are degrees of collective identity to which one is willing to accept.

Yes it is possible that they are not even protests against the established ruling party but just people venting off their grievances and wanting more accountability from the government and action due to economic hardships - power cuts, slow vaccination rate etc. and going out in the streets to exercise their rights for those demands and to be heard.

I can understand this is in the case of Fox News and some other US media outlets but the Guardian press staff who are the supposedly left-wing pro-Labour press in the UK to not be able to detect the 26th of July name for the the ruling party in Cuba on the picture and to present it on their cover as an anti-government protest while they are supposedly a left-wing publication calls into question the expertise and credentiality of people who work there if this was due to ignorance or more likely due to lazy self-bias of just quickly taking the picture from a well-established original corporate media complex 'credible' source AP and unquestioningly using it as a cover for the article while somehow missing that those protestors on the picture are holding slogans for more than a half a century old government ruling party in Cuba. What standard and knowledge required for professional journalism.

Interesting, thanks for being to willing to answer to me on this seemingly a little to personal question and being open and carefree about it, I will admit, this what intrigued me the most when you wrote on the context and the nature of your encounter of maybe having a intergenerational background in your own family and in the lives and encounters of your ancestors. It is one theory, of course, that can be either to narrow or to limited to explain why this happened specifically to you or that has perhaps some merit of explaining at least a fraction of some of the origins and your own predispositions towards the specifics of situation you are living with and experiencing, but the one that I most thought about when thinking about the possible further background behind the situation of what you are experiencing.

Fearmongering, demonizing, stereotyping and scapegoating a minority ethnic, religious or social group within a country or another nationality within a neighbouring country in order to divert the publics attention from the economic or other problems that the country went through, is going through or is facing ahead. For example the whole current government of Serbia and the President Aleksandar Vuchic and his ministers with the Croatians and their government and with the Albanians in Kosovo. Other examples here are genocide denial, watering down or justifying war crimes in a previous war, whitewashing and reinventing war criminals as national heroes and the demonizing, repressing and fearmongering about the political opposition and it's sympathizers in the country to the public in the media, in the press and in the political system.

Yes this all true. But, never mind that most academic settings, positions and jobs don't suffer through these problems and that they should supposedly foster higher consciousness and conscientiousness towards other humans and the world through the nature and aim of their work and yet the atmosphere is like Cornel described people wallowing exclusively in their own self-interest by using this veneer and institutional norms of this construct of academic professionalism to justify not reflecting more on the latter. Even in those hard and tough work environments, far from the privileges that come with the academic ones, people should also have the consciousness of their shared solidarity and struggle of going through the same things together exactly as people and fellow workers and to foster close friendships and alliances that would reflect their shared struggles and tribulations in the same work environment as form collective response to their same position at work and not wallow only in their own self-interest with shallow hope a miniscule possibility of even a slight advancement. Solidarity at work with colleagues should ideally resemble a friendship,not necessarily a close one, between humans in the work environments that you mentioned since they are all in the end part of the same workers community that are tied to other communities in that end. And the slight material advancements and things they might lose might be nothing in compared to the dignity and humanity they gain if they act and treat one another as a part of the same extended community together with their families and co-workers. This might all sound like idealistic and naive on first glance from lived experience view of working in such environments but what would the people lose and gain from fostering and creating such a work culture in such work environments, historically, powerful workers unions and their strong leadership would take upon the task to create and maintain such a work culture based on the shared interests and solidarity of all the workers. The bar set for a privileged academic setting than should be even higher given the nature of work they perform in society and Cornel is right should be even more impenetrable to other interests anc selfish exclusive self-interest given their role in the wider system. That's my two cents on it on reducing work environments to such an inescapable and alienating place with no place for improvement of human to human interactions and humanising work relationships.

Chapter I Hypocritical Humanitarianism "From March 24 to June 10 1999, US military forces,in coordination with a number of other NATO powers, launched round-the-dock aerial attacks against Yugoslavia, dropping twenty thousand tons of bombs and killing upwards of three thousand women, children, and men. All this was done out of humanitarian concern for Albanians in Kosovo — all in the name of peace, democracy, national security, and humanitarianism - or so we were asked to believe." p.9 "Some of us cannot help noticing that US leaders have been markedly selective in their supposedly humanitarian interventions. They made no moves against the Czech Republic for its mistreatment of the Roma (gypsies), or Britain for its longtime repression of the Catholic minority in Northern Ireland, or the Hutu for the mass murder of half a million Tutsi in Rwanda—or the French who were complicit in that massacre. Nor did US leaders consider launching "humanitarian bombings" against the Guatemalan people for the Guatemalan military's systematic slaughter of tens of thousands of Mayan villagers, or against the Indonesian people because their generals killed over two hundred thousand East Timorese and were engaged in such slaughter through the summer of 1999, not to mention the estimated half million to one million Indonesians these same generals exterminated in 1965 and after. Nor have humanitarian concerns caused US leaders and right-wing paramilitary forces to move against the scores of other countries around the world engaging in subversion, sabotage, terrorism, torture, drug trafficking, death squads, mass murder, and wars of attrition—actions that have been far worse than anything Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic has been charged with. In most cases, the US national security state has not only tolerated such atrocities but has been actively complicit with the perpetrators who usually happened to be recipients of US aid and trade." p. 10

It a human thing to do ain't it. I mean for a human who is in a community of any sort with a shared goal and aim that goes through the same thing. I mean we shouldn't be so alienated and atomised in our work environments under the veneer of professionalism that we forget that we are part of the same community that goes through the same things in their environment and are also part of other communities. It's the sweeping away of the humanity of a colleague and viewing him only through that lense as competitor for advancement at work or a fellow machine performing his given function pulling in the hours. This exactly what he categorised under the spiritual rot that is caused by narcisstic academic professionalism moved forward by exclusively market incentives and self-serving promises and interests of career advancement and being stuck in that bubble fostered by the institution itself and repressing human co-operative and communitarian impulses with other colleagues.

It's a very complex and systematic issue. But to narrow it down into my opinion and current possessing info on the topic education that is not easily affordable and good-paying jobs and careers now that require a degree now and constant professional perfecting, over shipping of industries to Third World countries, the increasing privatisation of previously free public goods such as education and healthcare in order to generate profit, debt peonage of a lot of people by taking loans with high interests from banks, little to no savings of most people that would go towards education and creditor economy and policy programs that are mainly focused on increasing efficiency, the revenue stream and profits of the already minority of upper eschalons of the economy. In short, the negation or curbing of the role the state played earlier in regulating the economy so it would not devolve with pure market mechanisms that are primarily aimed at increasing profits and funneling society into the opposing poles of winners who seized their opportunity in time in the economy and now have a monopoly on it and the losers who missed their mark or didn't make the right calls or moves and not giving them more chances via any meaningful regulatory mechanisms that previously existed and were aimed at raising the quality of the public as a whole and not cherry pick individuals exclusively on the performance. An economy functioning in the aim to increase the wealth of and fortify the social positions of the upper successful eschalons and credentialised classes as much as possible while leaving everyone else behind. There of course more nuances and intricacies to this given each countries specific situation and conditions but this can generally be put on he trend that has been happening over the last thirty years on the planetary scale. The current credentialised managerial and educated classes or the heirs of wealth using the previously existing more publicly oriented system to get ahead of everyone else and become winners of the system and then set up policies to fortify their social positions and compensation revenue for their function in order to enjoy as much benefits as possible and to increase their wealth acquired from those positions at the cost of most of the rest of the countries economy and people who didn't seize the opportunity in time or missed it. I may have butchered this last part but I aim to further inform and educate how this results systematically in the above mentioned result.

From my perspective. Yes, it feels like a regression, from the perspective of the relative psychological and cultural development of the country no, it just feels like cultural backlash of the less developed people on the spiral living in the country who were the shadow of its relative status of being a member of the Union. Depends on the pressure of the environment you are in and yours and its level of development. Personally, I have no issue I've been friends with gay people in my own country, and even though I don't plan on having kids anytime soon I think I will hopefully have the same attitudes when I have them. The main point of the article, as I see it, is to highlight the consequences of fragmenting society into this pole of the relatively affluent and wealthy educated winners of the global world with their refined cultural tastes and attitudes and the losers of the global world who suffer economic depravity and lack of opportunity, are stuck in the family unit and have no financial ability to educate themselves further and to move upwards on the social ladder, the rich have basically pulled the ladder for them and in their traditional and rigid mind they have developed resentment to this perceived threat of radically changing society culturally not corresponding with their own economic progress and development. Populism, therefore, becomes a kind of a manipulation scheme of the politicians to channel and to use the anger of the disaffected and suffering crowd into culturally regressive politics while not changing and improving the underlining economic conditions that are causing their resentment and skepticism to gradually shifting and changing society. Also, a traditionally oriented work environment helps reinforce these populists' narratives into an unquestioning echo chamber and work culture of people who worked there from my experience It makes it incompatible with enough open-mindedness and mental and emotional resilience to pursue further education as the demand of the constantly adapting and specializing individual in the contemporary global market society and not being stuck in resentment and victimhood in your current economic position and projecting your contempt and unhappiness onto something else or someone else developing and growing in society. I don't know currently if it just a current backlash or were these countries generally that underdeveloped than what the elite of the country tried to represent them to the world as. Though Poland and Hungary always had more of a traditional and religious base in their own country due to historical circumstances than the rest of Europe so the demarcation line of the level of the development of the Union is clearly drawn in those countries or at least prove that relative economic development doesn't always correspond of the overall cultural development of a country.

BreadTube Serves Imperialism: Examining The New Brand of Internet Psuedo-Socialism by Caleb Maupin. Excerpts from the book about Ian 'Vaush' Kochinski: Don't have the book just found about it, it's 18 bucks on Amazon. Looks very intriguing.

Fine. Thanks for the advice. I will look more into it before posting some book or excerpts from a book next time. Thanks for non-accusatory and calm heads-up.

I can't see how there isn't a semblance of an argument on the basis of exposing someone's beliefs as actually faux in regards to what someone actually perpetrates to standing for and believing. In other words, pointing to contradictions in one's stated beliefs and principles and actual conduct in the world and wider beliefs about the world. Pointing out to the readers how someone, maybe out of ignorance, unconsciously or perhaps out of self-serving interests, pushes systems of power and empire serving narratives to his audience while purportedly claiming to be doing something else amounts to shit tossing? His book, as I've seen the excerpts from it, is actually more like cataloguing of breadtubers, their biographies and their most heinous arguments and espoused positions on certain issues. So Leo is right in the sense that it kinda ammounts to gossipy shit but I would argue with a quality backdrop of giving some people who are interested about these online personalities and their social influence a background where they come from with thier positions and propagation of certain narratives. So the title of how BreadTube serves Imperialism can't be fully understood alone from these excerpts. I am not reading him I just saw these excerpts posted online and it caught my attention. I will see if I consider buying his book, I am currently in financial problems in regards to paying off my faculty debt and passing some exams which I failed and have to pass in August so I don't know if it would be worth my time and money and not a distraction from reading some actual relevant work or books that are relevant to understanding the history and origins of the living conditions of the country I currenlty live in. Like Michael Parrenti's work - How to Kill a Nation. The War on Yugoslavia. Agreed. I feel the same. I will ask some of the moderators to lock this thread it has already gone off the rails on level of reactivity on my side that I reacted to unconsciously when met by intially only dismissals or accusations that I am promoting reading a hateful ideologies promoting author that goes against the guidelines of the forum and on some people who chimed in recently triggered by the title of the thread, it's ammount of views or I don't know criticisms layed out of their viewing and online consumption habits of online personalities presented in these excerpts of the book.

Wouldnt equate them on the same position on the spiral based on some flimsy perceived similarties or biased projections. I don't personally see to equate them both as the since Caleb to be on a much higher level of rigour and intellectual seriousness then D'Souza who is tasked to invent ways for narrative validation of some disengaged from reality claims of the Republican Party. Maupin as some say may have ulterior motives or ideological biases but he puts much more serious intellectual seriousness and rigour to push his claims, that I don't feel as much being agenda driven for a larger entity, as much as being his staunch beliefs about the world and actual held positions. I am not sure D'Souza actually truly believes the stuff he puts forth. Dismissing some arguments on the basis of being or labelling them as infantile and one being beyond them is not either seriously engaging with their content or putting in the effort to actually adress them point by point and disprove them on the basis of contra-arguments based on evidence. It's more of a triggered response to seeing something one does not like or isn't alligned with one's own proclivities or tastes. Yeah I would agree with everything you said here about the psychological traps one might fall into deluding oneself he is more developed or more advanced then some simply on the basis of holding dogmatically an ideological position one feels is more correct and truthful simply through seeing the world through the lense of his own survival biases, lived conditions, group belonging, history and perceived past. He does not oppose that opinion since he is not critiquing the model of Spiral Dynamics, since I don't know if he even knows about it. He is critiquing BreadTube as phenomenona which he sees as presenting to him a misconstrued version of socialism divorced from the international context, apart from the conditions in the Western hemisphere, and the history of others peoples and countries trials and tribulations of implementing a functioning and prosperous model of it which corresponds to the actual stated goal and aim of that worldview which is a world where humans are truly free and not slaves to their own conditions they find themselves in, or at least that's my interpretation of it, and the various ways of achieving this.

Yes this is dangerous trap and obstacle against developing open-mindedness and the ability to view and think about the world, your position, place in it and state in it from multiple perspectives. Though this only comes from a disengaged, calmed and healthy mind not hooked on survival and crowd mentality pressure. Quite the challenge and feat to consistently develop and have consistent personal integrity with at the cost of short-term repercussions and consequences.

The scope is much larger I would argue due to the tech-monopolies being US based multinationals and the fact that the majority of the planet learns English for global commercial purposes. Well you are right about that and therein lies the danger of being stuck in your own psychological bubble and crowd echo chamber that is also partially enforced by the biases and survival interests of one's own position on the social ladder, economic development and wealth of the region, class, race, ethnicity, religion etc. Though I admit this view is also prone to simplification and generalisation for the purposes of one's own survival and prosperity bias and position in the globe and danger of being enslaved to one news sources that feeds your opinions, biases and proclivities back to you.

One of my problems with the self-proclaimed liberatarian left crowd is that stuff like this gets uncovered. No matter their psychological development on spiral dynamics this background and history presents a trust problem and a potential conflict of interest of advocating for something. Its seems on the outset like one part of these people use it as a sort of a de-radicalization umbrella for various ideas presented to left-oriented people to lessen their radicalism while on the same note not questioning the actors and their backgrounds who present such ideas. Like this guy who runs the channel and goes by the Twitter handle Socialism Done Left:

Wouldn't even be compelled to do that if it was an even playing field. The main problem as I see it is the Western media monopoly that projects their own unsolved issues onto other nations and cynically manufactures or construes evidence for fitting the legal definition of genocide as in the Uyghur case to drive a media narrative while deliberately downplaying the Palestinian case and situation. Here is a video disputing the former:

“Tankie” used to be a term for British communists who supported the Soviet Union, but under the facilitation of narrative managers like Smith it’s enjoying a mainstream resurrection in which it is commonly weaponized against anyone to the left of Sen. Bernie Sanders who opposes U.S. imperialist agendas. I wrote against imperialism for years without anyone ever applying that pejorative to me, but now it comes up on a near-daily basis. I haven’t changed the basics of my beliefs or my approach to anti-imperialism, but the widespread use of “tankie” as a pejorative against people like me most certainly has changed. Joining the Upper Ranks It joins the ranks of famous weaponized pejoratives like “Russian bot,” “CCP propagandist,” “Assadist” and the one-size-fits-all perennial favorite “conspiracy theorist” in labels used to dismiss anyone who voices skepticism of narratives that are being promoted by known liars to facilitate the agendas of murderous psychopaths. Another new crowd favorite is “genocide denier,” a label applied to anyone who points out the glaring plot holes in the imperial Uyghur narrative which narrative managers are overjoyed about being able to use because it lets them equate skepticism of a geostrategically significant U.S. narrative with Nazism. What these pejoratives accomplish, as Noah Smith is well aware, is the ability to inoculate the mainstream herd from the wrong think of anyone to whom that label has been applied. That way they never have to engage the argument or the evidence that gets laid out contradicting the official imperial line; as long as they can convince enough people to accept their pejorative as legitimate, they have a magical phrase they can utter to dispel any anti-imperialist argument which appears anywhere in the information ecosystem."

Alright, what ulterior motives did you assess from 4 pages of the piece. Someone reading this will abandon Kochinski and what will then become amicable to Nazbol propaganda and go watch Nazbol content on YouTube or read Nazbol work. Where exactly in the piece does his Nazbol bias show itself and is detectable. We can flip the question. How trustworthy is Vaush a source on socialism and anti-imperialism if he gets coaching before debates from TYT contributors that are on the payroll of Democratic Party lobby groups and other lobby groups in the U.S. "I’d be remiss to overlook the influence of twenty million dollars invested in The Young Turks from Jeffrey Katzenberg’s media conglomerate that has its fingers in the private healthcare industry. In 2019, Katzenberg developed a smartphone app to help healthcare giants with mobile marketing. Like Nomiki Konst, Ana Kasparian brands herself as a progressive, and even a socialist, while participating directly in NATO propaganda operations. Last year, she beamed with pride as she interviewed Madeleine Albright at the Munich Security Conference, a NATO summit funded by Western governments, multi-national corporations, and the arms industry." Source: https://mronline.org/2020/12/30/meet-the-pseudo-left-imperialists-fighting-against-universal-healthcare/ Again where in that piece does that authoritarian ideology manifest? What for second guessing the intent behind calling for that Trump supporters be disappeared after rushing the Capitol? Questioning U.S. State Department calls for humanitarian interventions across different countries? Where in the piece is it indicated that he supports Nazism or Bolshevism? Besides honestly that sounds like a stretched for the purposes of dismissing someone based on the label 1920's and 1930's stage blue false equivalency to me. It's anti-imperialist only in its position as a counter to U.S. imperialism across the globe. The same way that Soviet Union once was anti-imperialist against U.S. influence on the globe yet internally it was a different story. Again some would not characterize that as genocide based on the supplied evidence but a government suppression of a religious and cultural liberties of a minority group, again not surprising given the policy of official state atheism in China, not to mention the fact suppressing a separatist organizations such as the ETIM that planned to carry out terrorist attacks across China such as at Beijing Olympics in 2008, that curiously the U.S. State Department in 2020 suddenly removed from its list of designated terrorist organizations. Curious. Only shows how deeply the narrative managers have falsely equated the two positions and manufactured the label 'tankie' in the minds of Americans and Westerners. Here is an article if you are curious of how that narrative management and control works and how it repeats the talking points of U. S. State Department propaganda against a group or other countries: https://consortiumnews.com/2021/04/06/tankie-other-popular-terms-of-narrative-control/

It's because, at least Ian Kochinski does, I don't know about the others I haven't watched them, they demonise and smear harsh critics of U.S. domestic and foreign policy, State Department propaganda and corporate media propaganda as monolithic and homogeneous group of 'tankies' who use it as a cover to support authoritarian regimes aligned against U.S. interests or who openly work for the advancement of the interests of those régimes. Example if you are against U.S. escalation of arms supply to Taiwan, are skeptical based on the supplied and surfaced evidence of the extent that what is happening in Xinjiang is an actual 'concentration and internment camp genocide of the Uyghur ethnic minority group carried out in open sight by the Chinese government' and that it can't be characterized as something else for example government suppression, forced secularisation and Sinofication or discrimination against a group or suppressing that group for the fear of infiltration and support of separatist and terrorist group such as the ETIM or even call it cultural genocide if you will, while ignoring the fact that China has done that to most of its religious groups under the policy of state atheism and not just Uyghurs, being against the murderous economic sanctions and warfare imposed on the Venezuelan government carried out by the U. S. government and being amicable and in support of that governments struggle against those sanctions and some of their policies towards their people and being in support also of the Iran and Cuba governments struggle against U. S. sanctions etc. and what do these authoritarian regimes have in common they are curiously all the target of U. S. economic sanctions and military might and somehow those other authoritarian regimes like in Colombia and Azerbaijan and others around the globe aren't, and that to me is why it's fair game to call them, like Maupin said, anti-imperialists state because they are only demonised and despised as authoritarian by the U. S. State Department because they go against the logic of U. S. economic imperialism and financial hegemony in their geostrategic constellation and functioning. Also because they demonise the working-class, small businesses or rural Americans in your country who got coned by Trump and have been abandoned and outcast by the state as irredeemable fascists and as a potential domestic terrorist threat in alignment with the stance U. S. intelligence services and government who are the ones that need to go extinct and disappear from the country failing to see that their the ones who are the actual suffering working class of the country that is in alienated and in deep despair caused by the severe lack of economic justice and structural dysfunction within the country. They view them as the CIA views them as prone to white nationalist, ethnonationalist or supremacist radicalization by foreign powers while totally dismissing the underlying structural and economic causes that in the past 30 years caused the American working class to be in such a state. Zero compassion and liberal bigotry directed towards them.