Members of Kibbutz Hanita near Israel’s northern border are demanding $11 million from Ballet Vision, the Chinese fund that controls 80% of the Hanita Lenses plant, accusing it of refusing to exercise an option to purchase the kibbutz’s remaining shares, according to a lawsuit filed in Tel Aviv District Court.
In a response letter attached to the lawsuit, the Chinese fund said that since the outbreak of the war in Israel, Beijing has classified Israel as a “high-risk area” and imposed a ban on any new Chinese investments in the country, making it impossible to carry out the option.
According to the lawsuit, in 2021 the kibbutz sold 74% of Hanita Lenses, which manufactures intraocular lenses for medical use, to Ballet Vision for $35 million. Of that sum, $25 million was paid to kibbutz members, with an additional $10 million injected into the company.
Why do you suppose Marxist-Leninist ideology somehow immunizes a nation against imperialist desires or a general desire to increase ones power, which are both arguably part of human nature and certainly part of the nature of a nation-state?
What is it about any ideology that might make it immune to that?
Any unchecked ideology will eventually try to assert itself unilaterally. As your previous comments have made clear.
Marxism-Leninism is an explicitly anti-colonialist ideology that helped the PRC overturn the century of humiliation, defeat Japanese and US imperialism and feudalists, to win the greatest anti-colonial revolution of the 20th century.
Only if you are entirely ignorant of that history can you claim that “the anti-colonial camp is just as bad as their colonizers”.
Nothing about what you’ve said convinces me that a nation founded on or implementing Marxist Leninist or any other ideological principles is somehow immune to the drive to spread those principles through violence or expansion or whatever other explanation they come up with. I can appreciate that you believe that this system is perfect and would never be unethical or immoral, but I’m afraid I disagree with you, and moreover I don’t believe we a) start from the same fundamental values or beliefs, nor b) have enough goodwill to engage in good faith. Nor do I have the time or the desire to rectify any of that, even if I thought it would benefit me in any way to do it.
Thankfully for me, as much as I have problems with the way my country is organized (which you cannot know, and seem to have no desire to know), I strongly doubt your way of organizing the world will have much purchase here.
I’m moving on and I recommend you do as well.
Let me guess, you have to go give a standing ovation to an SS veteran?
Your argument is still idealist, not materialist, and thus relies on supernatural explanation. Appealing to the idea of a universal human spirit that trends towards imperialism and increasing power is a supernatural explanation for why imperialism exists, and why power structures are formed. Same with the idea thay any “unchecked” ideology will “assert itself unilaterally,” which itself could be a good thing!
Imperialism is caused by capitalist expansion, capital expands outward and seeks foreign markets to plunder in order to fight the tendency for the rate of profit to fall. This isn’t because of “human nature” or any other vague and supernatural explanation, but because of material processes of economics.
If your arguments are restrained to the realm of the supernatural, we can’t take them seriously.
You, or at least many of the other commenters that I was responding to, believe a Marxist regime is immune to abuse of power, in particular military strength, and would never enforce its will. I disagree with that, and I don’t need to invoke anything you call supernatural to hold that belief.
You’re right, if this is where we are, I’m not sure there is any discussion I would wish to have. And given the overwhelming animosity I’ve experienced, I’m guessing neither do you or any of the other commenters.
None of you have given me any indication of good faith, and quite a few have in fact made some rather abhorrent claims about me, someone they know nothing about.
We should collectively take this as an indication that there is no discussion to be had here.
I don’t, though, and neither do other communists.
I’d like an example, because I don’t know how to discuss this otherwise.
I don’t see evidence that that’s the case. I understand that you feel attacked by Marxists, but I don’t see what you mean by that practically.
Well I’ll be honest you seem like the only one I can actually having a constructive discussion with, and I urge you to read some of the other replies to me that have insulted my family, suggested I’m a fascist apologist, or even told me to kill myself.
I don’t believe I’ve gone anywhere near that with any of my responses.
I hope you can understand that I’m not really seeing any upside to this anymore.
If you had actually maintained a sense of honesty when reading and replying to the original comments, then it likely wouldn’t have spiraled into this. I can empathize with you feeling attacked, but from the onset you weren’t interested in good-faith discussion based on how you read my comment and refused to accept any clarification.
Fucking human nature bullshit.
God I hate liberals.
I’m not worried that you even understand what liberalism is, and I know for a fact you have no idea who I am other than my comment history. Yours, by the way, is not particularly impressive.
Who did you vote for in the last Canadian election?
And exactly what was the point of your insertion into this discussion?
What you talking about? You hint that you saw my comment history and how in the world you came to the conclusion that I’m Canadian?
Calling this “imperialist desires or a general desire to increase ones power, which are both arguably part of human nature” what is it: completely bullshit.
Buddy if you’re not Canadian, then why would I care what you think? Thankfully your politics will have little purchase here. I suspect you know very little about my country and I know that you know even less about me.
On the topic of discussion, you don’t understand my central claim and frankly I’m not sure it would benefit either of us to reach any mutual understanding anyway. To start with, you use terms like ‘fucking liberals’ that doesn’t really suggest an inclination to deep thought on the concept of what a liberal is unless it’s in a portmanteau with the word retard.
Au revoir my special friend.
Least racist Canadian
In the topic of China and imperialism vs anti-imperialism you starting talking about Canada like the only place that matter and I need to care about it? What?
You started this shit with the quote, which you clearly don’t know what militant is or you miss read it as MILITARY
And you try to wriggle your justification of equating imperialism vs anti imperialism and justifying it by it’s the human nature to want power, which is bullshit, the only thing that I saw philosophers and social scientist and behaviour studies say about human nature is the desire to have control of their own lives, nothing close or relate to power.
kys
If you’re not Canadian why would I care what you think or do, and why would I waste energy on a discussion that is personally insulting?
Oh yeah you’re a real decent human.
You’re the one that keeping replying bro.
That’s why I hate liberals they only care about their own personal freedoms and private property.
I’m only respond in the properly tone of your smugness debatelord.
And he’s still going
No u