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I consider myself fairly knowledgeable, the Institute for New Economic Thinking confuses me.. (lemmygrad.ml)

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It's a Soros funded organization based out of NYC, run by hedge fund people, they certainly aren't pro communism or Marxism, but they have a lot of videos advocating for unusually things when compared to typical neocon and neolib economix thinkers and institutes in the west, in particular they have a pro-china tilt, I don't really know what to think about them and digging hasn't helped at all, anyone have any decent resources or videos about them? Or suggestions for where to look?

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[–] voxov7 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I don't know how reputable they are, but these two video from their youtube caught my attention:

How Economists Invented Austerity & Paved the Way to Fascism

Development, Climate Change & Capitalism

They're both very critical of capitalism, perhaps even explicitly Marxist, as in the second video Ying Chen refers to her paper How Has Ecological Imperialism Persisted? A Marxian Critique of the Western Climate Consensus.

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YouTube links were detected in your comment. Here are links to the same videos on Invidious, which is a YouTube frontend that protects your privacy:

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[–] voxov7 1 points 9 months ago

Rewatching them, they're both explicitly marxist.