A fascinating read and a fresh perspective i haven’t heard before, which is rare. I’m not sure i buy the whole theory being laid out here though. I think in some ways it falls into certain idealist traps in the same way that western liberal “end of history” theories do.

I can’t quite put my finger on it yet, i will have to read this over a couple of times and give it some thought before i can really put my thoughts in order and formulate a proper critique, but right off the bat I will say it feels unusually cynical for a Chinese perspective…triumphalist but in an off-putting way that is lacking in materialist grounding. It’s definitely a departure from the usual win-win concepts that we typically hear and into a much more jaded Realpolitik view.

I also worry that the capability for China to use AI in shaping global perceptions, and in fact the capabilities of AI in general are being overestimated here. I may be wrong on this, maybe AI really is the absolutely world-changing tool that its most ardent proponents think it is, but i am not yet fully convinced. AI has its uses and will or already is revolutionizing certain fields but it’s not all-powerful.

I guess what i’m struggling to see here is a grounded dialectical analysis. In particular i think that the idea of being able to arrest certain processes of development and global shifts in industrial power is an illusion. Change is unavoidable. Every system and every society experiences ups and downs. Falling into the trap of believing that you can keep the same position and the same system forever is a big part of why the West is handling its decline so badly.

I’m also not convinced that the three “ideologies” that are being compared here: liberalism, “right-wing accelerationism” (aka fascism) and “center-left accelerationism” (SWCC), are the only choices. In particular “center-left accelerationism”, really is more of a strategy than an ideology. It is not, as it is presented in this article, an end in itself, but a means to an end, that end being still further left: the advanced stage of socialism.

Instead this person appears to believe or want the current intermediate and transitionary stage to be eternal.

These are just my initial thoughts, i’ll see if i can get a more coherent idea of what it is about this that doesn’t quite click with me after i read it again.

Redacted; overly critical.

Thanks for the share; an interesting read.