I’m joking, but the proxy state of Ukraine are doing full neoliberalism like their new owners in the US/EU, so give it some time and I’m sure they will start extracting that sweet, sweet, sweet blood soon enough. “ACTUALLY Putin is the real imperialist for stopping blood theft voluntary exchange between individuals, we must join forces with nazis to smash the state!!! Putin’s critique of the global labor aristocracy isn’t TRUE MARXISM”

As one of the few countries in the world that allows donor remuneration, the United States provides between 65 and 80 percent of the world’s source plasma, functioning as what medical journalist Douglas Starr calls “the OPEC of plasma”. In 2016, the United States exported $19 billion worth of plasma, a value comparable to what we export in medium sized cars and clothing. By another measure, plasma is worth more by unit than oil

Tell me again how the book Settlers is wrong in casting the class of Liz Warren wendigos as demonic nazism that only exists as a “parasitic genocidal entity”?

“Thinking of plasma donation as work might feel uncomfortable for some” https://jacobin.com/2023/08/blood-money-book-review-plasma-donation-exploitation-labor

comfy PMC at Jacobin really did say ‘blood work is work’ lmao woke neoliberals are beyond parody, I could never be so cynical to write this joke

“We should not assume that US government officials know what is best for poor Mexicans better than the latter themselves do. Such paternalism is especially worthy of condemnation…the argument that paid plasma donation qualifies as “labor for hire” strikes me as highly dubious. It is far more akin to the sale of a commodity.” https://reason.com/volokh/2021/06/25/biden-administration-imposes-cruel-border-restriction-barring-mexicans-from-crossing-to-the-us-to-sell-blood-plasma/

the “google Bookchin” anti-communist PMC at Reason demonstrating woke anarcho-neoliberal ideology, glorifying the individual as a free market enterprising agent who transforms themselves into a commodity. I can’t wait til blood workers start making LinkedIn blood pages branding themselves: “genuine 100% artisanal Oaxaca plasma” :matt:

This Reaganite hegemonic project of deregulation in favor of “free markets for individual consumers” is a cornerstone of woke Liz Warren adjacent radlibs since OWS. Whether its empowering Ukrainian teens sex workers in rationally navigating the global marketplace to make choices as an individual to visit Epstein’s island decolonized pagan temples, or getting alienated workers excess free-time having consumers addicted to the ‘small consumer joys’ of Big Tobacco/opiate corpos, or if its crossing the border to sell blood to labor aristocrats. “Harm reduction” is a cute meme for neoliberal demons to pretend they are progressives fighting “oppression” (a woke radlib term, Marxists are proud to oppress bourgeois vampires lol) and not amoral cheerleaders celebrating new forms of exploitation and rape previously thought impossible