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That narrative goes like this: Rich countries get rich by stealing their wealth. Imperial powers got rich because they seized the wealth of the lands they colonized. And they stay rich by continuing to exploit the resource wealth of the poor countries in the global South. Even within rich countries, the rich people get and maintain their wealth by forcibly extracting labor and land from the poor people. In other words, there is a lump of wealth in the world, and it goes to the people who have the power.

We've all heard that narrative at some point.

Now, I don't want to get too down on people who believe that narrative, because that really was the way the world worked for many thousands of years. Almost all economy was farming, logging, mining, fishing, etc. The only capital was land, and land was fixed. Grab the land, and you grab the wealth. A zero-sum game where kings ruled and slaves starved.

And in plenty of countries today, something similar is still true. In countries suffering from the "resource curse", most of the income comes from oil drilling, or mining, or farming, or logging - in other words, from land. The people who own the land get fabulously rich, and the poor people languish in poverty, with little to do but open little shops and stalls in the slums, or work the mega-farms of the land barons. The rich people buy the government, and use it to stifle any attempt at a change in the status quo. Meanwhile, the government doesn't invest in things like education and health, because its tax revenues come from land instead of human capital.

So the zero-sum narrative is not obviously wrong and dumb. But it's not the only narrative. And it is not the narrative of industrialization. And we know this because of...South Korea.

South Korea has never had its own empire. It was desperately poor, a tributary of China and Russia, then a colony of Japan. It has no natural resources to speak of. And yet, beginning in the late 20th century, South Korea began to get rich very rapidly. And it continued getting rich. And now it is rich. With those riches came not a rise but a fall in inequality, and of course huge improvements in health. The rising tide lifted all Korean boats. Nor has that country been blighted by pollution. In fact, South Korea is just an awesome place to live.

How did South Korea pull off that trick?

Well, no one knows exactly what worked and what didn't; all we see is the overall result. But in general, South Korea followed a blueprint outlined by America, Germany, and Japan. That blueprint is called, for lack of a better term, "manufacturing-export capitalism". We don't really know what countries can do to get rich, but the really successful ones all seem to do something that looks like "manufacturing-export capitalism". And it's basically what Mexico is doing right now.

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In any case, back to the master narrative: Real national wealth does not come from theft. It comes from reorganizing society into a more productive form. As South Korea did. As Japan did before that. As Mexico is hopefully doing right now. The nations of the Global South were late to the industrialization party, but I think they are finally here.

Don't believe false narratives. If you think the apocalypse is coming, chances are you're just going to get laughed at by a Mayan engineer on a plane.

Jag fylls av vrede när jag läser det. Vem är vita svenskar? Vad är det som skiljer kroppslig erfarenhet av rasism från en intellektuell sådan? Varför etablera en hierarki där kroppen och hudpigmenten och blodet är överordnade medvetna ställningstaganden? Vem tjänar på att antirasister och demokrater hålls separerade av tveksamma färg- beteckningar?

Sara Gunnerud har varit pådrivande i kampen för Omar Mustafa från ett tidigt stadium. Det finns en pakt mellan de här feministiska kvinnorna och de islamistiska männen. Det är inte i första hand muslimer de vill värna, utan just islamisterna.
-När det gällde kampen för att få bort Nalin Pekgul gick det alltså så långt att man ingick en pakt över partigränserna då Omar Mustafa och Abdeizak Waberi gjorde gemensam sak mot Nalin Pekgul, med feministiser som Sara Gunnerud som påhejare.

Dagens krönika (Aftonbladets Len Mellin. min anm.) är inget undantag från denna regel, att göra allt hon kan för att skriva ner den nuvarande partiledaren Håkan Juholt. Till och råga på allt så har hon även fått den person som levererar grafik till hennes artiklar att skruva bilden så gott det går till socialdemokratins nackdel. Se grafen nedan, enligt Aftonbladet är 30,9 procent mindre än 30,5 procent.

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Det hela har förfinats till ännu mer fulländning. Jag brukar tala om Schymanmetoden, dvs., att man anklagar någon för en viss företeelse (till exempel härskarteknik), bara för att sedan anse sig ha rätt att använda sig av samma företeelse mot den man anklagar. Detta eftersom man anser sig vara först kränkt. Själva anklagelsen behöver dock inte beläggas med konkret fakta. Om anklagelsen görs av rätt person - en kvinna, en invandrare, en homosexuell osv. – är det bevis nog. Logiken är denna: jag som offer har rätt att slå dig på käften eftersom du ändå skulle ha slagit mig innan jag slog dig. Alltså självförsvar. Ungefär så.