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Ok this is my last post about the "Sudan was a CIA regime change op" people. One thing I've said before about the current crop of people who call themselves anti-imperialists is that they have no idea how economics works, their analysis of any

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given situation is entirely geopolitical. Thus, and this is a MASSIVE change from the anti-globalization movement, they think that the American empire is a political project and not an economic one and focus on the CIA, not the IMF, as the core

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of the American empire. This of course completely bites them in the ass when they're trying to understand Sudan because THE EMPIRE HAD ALREADY FUCKING WON THERE. Omar al-Bashir was implementing IMF structural adjustments. That was what the empire

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wanted, because, and I CANNOT emphasize this enough, THE AMERICAN EMPIRE IS AN ECONOMIC PROJECT. Obviously since the revolution there've been attempts by different imperial factions, the UAE most notably, to stem the bleeding by making sure the

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Rapid Response Forces are the ones that stay in power, but you have to remember THOSE ARE THE GUYS THE REVOLUTIONARIES WERE FIGHTING. Anti-IMF revolts are literally the bread and butter of the left. In any given situation the people fighting the

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IMF are more likely to be genuine anti-imperialists than even the people fighting the CIA. But the focus on empire as a purely media/CIA manufactured consent machine and not also and primary an economic engine keeps us from seeing this.

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Going to end with this analysis from @chuangcn about the limits of an anti-imperialism that isn't based in anti-capitalism

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