these neoliberals, these libertarians, these free market economists, can never point to a single

example in world history of any state entering high income status through their political program,

including, by the way, all of the advanced wealthy, rich Western states, which obviously

they benefited from imperialism, slavery, genocide, ethnic cleansing of indigenous people

stealing their land. But even aside from that, the U.S. was the most protectionist economy on

earth until World War II. And the British economy was the most protectionist until famously

the mid-19th century when they famously got rid of

the corn laws, which was a way of maintaining steady price for grains. And this was shown famously by

the South Korean development economist, Hadjun Chang, who is not like a Marxist Leninist. He's a

development economist. And he has shown, through his famous book, kicking away the

ladder, that every single successful, wealthy economy developed through massive state intervention

in the economy, industrial policy, high tariffs, protectionism, not through free trade.

It's only after they develop, then they start reaching free trade because

famously, as we've known since the 19th century, with famous economists like Friedrich Liszt,

he famously pointed out that it's only when the British Empire attained its technological

and economic dominance, then it started imposing free trade through colonialism.

Quite literally, free trade was originated with the British Empire as a colonial ideology.

I'm a socialist. I'm not saying that people should adopt the South Korean dictatorship.

What I'm saying is that there is no example in history of any country developing through the free market.

It's not real.

It's a complete ideological fantasy concocted by the U.S. empire, the British Empire,

to serve their economic and political interests.

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