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Empire’s Workshop with Greg Grandin

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The Capitalist World System Makes Development Impossible

The very unequal structure of the capitalist world system makes development impossible. There was no space for an anti soviet left to develop. All reform is all nationalists, all democrats were seen as the problem. This wasn't the sia's first covert op against the left. The overwhelming momentum was to evaporate the political centre because of this and lead to post war radicalization that a lot of us know.

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