This is a very interesting discussion that delves into elite theory, circulation of elites, politics, power, and the upcoming UK election. Parvini is the author, if you haven’t noticed, of the book on the sidebar. He also has a channel on Youtube under the name, Academic Agent that is excellent.
This may be the most gay thing ever. It’s like Freddie Mercury and Elton John had a butt baby and…
Hehe, lefties don’t like him! From wiki:
I don’t know what ethnicity Dr Parvini hails from but from his name and photo it’s likely to be someplace Hope not Hate normally swoons for.
Most likely Persian. As a guess I’d say the family scarpered in the late 70s to the UK. He looks in his 40s. Smart people the Persians, the Shia not so much. Can’t find his history, so probably correct.
Iranian, and his dad travels back and forth to Iran. He was born in Wales. Mother is from UK.
The Duran is a site well worth watching. Alex Mercouris has a very deep insight into European politics.
It would be more watchable if Alex didn’t keep bobbing his head around and looking down his nose at the viewer.
Just listen then.
I do. Scroll the screen down just so the words are visible.
What I have been saying for a while, its not that the corrupt mafia state called Russia is targeted for being a top down mafia state that the west wants to clean up or that chinese system of mass control via ruthless policing and social credit is on the nose to our elites, its that our elites want global hegemony and can’t stand competition. Ukraine is war of western style corruption vs russian style corruption.
The coming war with chinese is corrupt western neo-marxist elites vs corrupt chinese “state capitalist” marxist elites. Again western style corruption vs chinese style corruption.
I don’t think much is gained by using the term ‘corruption’ here if the natural state of politics just is relations of power. Russia was targeted because Putin wanted to put an end to the hollowing out of Russia by interests at home and abroad. This obviously wasn’t going to be accepted by the GAE and everything we’ve seen since demonstrates this clearly.
Also, I think much of the same with the use of Marxist/ neo-Marxist. In many ways, it is an alibi for liberalism and managerialism which are more relevant descriptors of the Western elite than neo-Marxist. Or to use a term AA uses, they are a containment strategy employed by the elite.
Yes, I like this. It’s a global turf war between rivals gangs of thugs, freaks and corruptocrats. The west is ruled currently by deviants and scammers. Russia by thugs and robber barons.
In the west, we the punters are being robbed, fleeced and conned into paying for these grubs, as the peasants were back in the day of the Sheriff of Nottingham.
See my reply to Zip above. The robber barons and thugs were operating in the 90s, and often in the interests of the GAE.