Mali cotton and Western subsidies

As told 1

“We don't want your help. We just please want you play by your own rules. Where is your free market competition?”
18:42 The MATRIX or Two Sides of Perversion2014-03 · 41:31

What it carries

one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)

contents · one story, 3 jobsuses

immanent critique ×1 global capitalism ×1 point of impossibility ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by

Jan Žižka1 Gerald Cohen1 Carl Schmitt1 Jacques-Louis David1 Peter Mandelson1 Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva2 Jean-Bertrand Aristide1 Jean-Marie Le Pen1

alongside works

On Ascending a High Mountain1 Zorn und Zeit1 Goodbye Mr. Socialism1 The Actuality of Carl Schmitt1 First as Tragedy, Then as Farce1 Gulag1 Critique of Violence1 Multitude1

Told together with

4% Niels Bohr's horseshoe 2 shared talks

Every retelling 2

~1:34:03 Whither Left?2010-01-09 · 2:12:27

Mali's economy minister said they don't want Western aid, only that the West respect its own free-market rules; Mali produces the world's best cotton at a third of US prices, but the US spends more subsidizing its cotton industry than Mali's entire state budget., illustrating Western hypocrisy on free markets,capital flight and the limits of progressive governance

18:42 The MATRIX or Two Sides of Perversion2014-03 · 41:31

Mali produces the world's best cotton at half the US cost, but US farm subsidies (exceeding Mali's entire state budget) block it from the market. Mali's minister asked not for aid but for the West to play by its own free-market rules, which the US refused. Used to illustrate the hypocrisy of capitalist universalism and the case for immanent critique., illustrating immanent critique,nation-state,global capitalism