tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2850317371890980843.post9175568089868808352..comments2023-03-24T07:49:06.463+01:00Comments on Κουτί Πανδώρας - pandora-box (pb) : Abstracting and creating agitprop realities: a longue-durée view of political “storytelling” on two sides of the same post-Communist coin Richard S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/05822404919402821262noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2850317371890980843.post-75517015017113447902015-03-02T16:04:35.803+01:002015-03-02T16:04:35.803+01:00Thanks, Scott. Sure, I am aware that the Far East ...Thanks, Scott. Sure, I am aware that the Far East is no longer the periphery, and I haven't dealt with it in the article which focuses more on US-European/Russian or US-Middle East relations. But if you click on "China" in the top section where it is mentioned (admittedly, only once, but see above for explanation), it leads you to an article of the same content as the one you're linking too, i.e. that China has surpassed the US....<br /><br /> willwiltshirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07885375437405202897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2850317371890980843.post-90980079959899549872015-03-02T12:01:00.420+01:002015-03-02T12:01:00.420+01:00Agitprop is the right word for describing the stat...Agitprop is the right word for describing the state of mainstream news. I like how you turn to Immanuel Wallerstein's world-system theory to distinguish our political myths from historical facts. However, you forgot one important development that needs to be updated: namely, the core zones of the capitalist world economy that you mention belong to the 20th century – the far East no longer belongs with the periphery. The gravity of the world the economy has been shifting eastward since the 1970s. And, in spite of being barely reported, the Chinese economy surpassed the US in late 2014. <br /><br />http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/01/china-worlds-largest-economyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com