Nothing meaningful unless the working classes develop leverage; history suggests that in the imperial cores a sufficient portion of the masses turn towards fascism.

Liberte, egalite, fraternite offered potential political and economic rights; liberals ultimately rejected de jure economic rights for the working classes and thereby rejected de facto political rights.

It’s funny how all these liberal democracies have these “checks and balances”… to thwart any potential threat to capital.

Fascist apologism is an advertisement of a deep inferiority complex.

There are interesting insights on geopolitics from the political right despite their reactionary sensibilities (Emmanuel Todd on trans rights for example).

I wonder whether they see alignment in the social conservativism of Putin, along with lack of threat perceived from Russian Capitalism and added by what they perceive as “progressivism” (however thin and tokenised) of media and mainstream parties which they find anatagonising that affords them these perspectives.

I do want to stress they usually do not have a very deep understanding of geopolitics given their lack of understanding of capital; that is for us MLs to decipher in the same way we consume any liberal media.

Hopefully there is sufficient material conditions to force him to keep his promise though history suggests that optimism may be a bit naive.

Thank you very much for sharing this enlightening perspective; a pensive read. I will be looking up Cui Tiankai to see if he has any further articles / speeches I can read. I liked the dialectical take.