Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory director Harold Brown and Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev both described neutron bombs as a "capitalist bomb", because it was designed to destroy people while preserving property.
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Of course.
It's just how people were back then. You have to evaluate people as a product of their times. Just because he was a rapist, plagiarist, cop, anti-semitic, homophobic, and liked Hitler doesn't mean he was wrong about evil totalitarian stalinism! /s
Didn't Orwell say he couldn't bring himself to dislike Hitler?
Some slave owners like Jeff Bezos are so nice that they even thank their slaves for all their hard work that they did to send their master into space for a couple seconds on a phallic rocket.
The US isn't even the best at that grift. Germany spent about double that over a decade while emissions increased.
IIRC his wife admitted at some point that Gulag Archipelago was a work of fiction.
I'm only superficially familiar with Fisher's concept of capitalist realism, but it speaks to the same idea. As the tagline on his book says, is there no alternative?
I feel this. It's also something I try to talk about with others, but I always have the feeling that it falls on deaf ears. At best I get general uncomittal agreement and some liberal platitudes about how this is just the way things are in return.
Sometimes I ask people what made Trump so uniquely bad. The only answer I've gotten so far, one which can't be applied to every other US president, is his unfiltered and brash communication style.
I also think that Trump was good vis a vis nations in the US sphere of influence. The leaders of those countries started thinking about what happens when they're not the US' puppets. Unfortunately those thoughts were all forgotten as soon as Biden was elected, as everything went back to normal.
Can't have wars between nations if you don't teach people that other nations exist or aren't truly sovereign.
After reading the article and looking into this Dr. Busby I feel like caution is necessary.
While I wouldn't put it past the imperialists to use nuclear weapons, the author has taken some questionable positions in the past. The again said positions are merely not in line with the narrative the imperialist project presents, so maybe there's nothing to be concerned about here.
The UN for example stated in 2006 that his claims of DU munitions being used In Kosovo and Iraq (part two) are empirically false, but since then the US and NATO have admitted to it.
He has a very strange theory of radiation effects on humans, one which doesn't at all match with long established evidence, the mainstream theory, nor more modern theories.
He also claimed the Fukushima disaster (and Chernobyl) was much worse than it's generally agreed to be, and was selling some sort of anti-radiation pill of questionable effectiveness to Japanese people in the area.
The people who already mentioned cold fusion in this thread have made good points as well. I can't find much on this Del Guidice character but there's a bit in the German Wikipedia entry noting that his and his collaborator Giuliano Preparata's ideas on cold fusion and the "memory of water" were not well accepted amongst peers.