Tag: pro-capitalist

Prof. Grover Furr Applies the Academic Method!

Grover Furr: “Trotsky Was a Fascist!” – Talk on Trotsky’s Comintern Conspiracy to the Oakland ICSS October 20, 2024! (5.1.2025)

When it comes to historical evidence there is no such thing as “credibility.” All evidence must be subjected to doubt and carefully studied.

The Need For, and Lack of, Objectivity

Everybody has biases. But everybody can learn to be objective in studying any subject, whether it be physics or history. The techniques are basically similar.

Objectivity as a scientific method is a practice of “distrust of the self.” You can learn to be objective by training yourself to become aware of, to articulate, and then to question your own preconceived ideas. You must be reflexively suspicious of evidence that tends to confirm your own preconceived ideas, prejudices, and preferences. You must learn to give an especially generous reading to any evidence and arguments that contradict your own preconceived ideas.

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Exposing the ‘Fake’ China Development Brief! (22.6.2019)

Essentially, this is a computer ‘scam’ making fools of us all by spreading very poorly hidden Eurocentric and pro-capitalist anti-China rhetoric across the internet. Its operation is probably either from the US, Taiwan or both, and if it has had any legitimate contact with Chinese academia, Chinese business or the Chinese Government, its remit has been very narrow. However, as it is creating ‘fake’ Chinese language websites designed to give false impressions in the West, it is obvious that this organisation is not much different to the ‘Pro-Tibetan Movement’ or the ‘Falun Gong Cult’ – all manifestations of US anti-Communist attitudes. Its racism is obvious if you happen to be ‘Chinese’. Its website publishes articles in what is claimed to be English translations of Chinese source articles – but upon checking no such articles exist on the Mainland Chinese internet (Baidu). What is in fact happening is that when their US paymasters decree that a certain idea or assertion be produced in English, the finished article is then fed through google translate and then uploaded onto a fake Chinese language website that does not exist within Mainland China, and which can only be easily accessed by English speaking Westerners.

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