China offers left-wing accelerationism, where technology serves the people that stands in contrast with right-wing accelerationism we see happening in the west.

I do like this perspective. It is a lasting response to Thather’s “there is no alternative”.

Redacted; overly critical.

Thanks for the share; an interesting read.

I wonder what the next (neo-nazi) 9-11 would look like; maybe they do not need to as the existing bourgoisie electoralism provides for them.

Thanks for sharing - Indica is always fun to read; I wish I knew about him earlier.

western tech failing (israeli, french etc by India) against chinese tech (by Pakistan) is going to change the course of global politics and global arms procurement (Russia is also seeing how far more advanced chinese tech is). Indian ceasefire echoes western losses/retreats - overpriced outdated tech against cheaper more advanced ones.

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/7831706/6361053

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From the top of my head (and not in contradiction to your post):

• CPI(M) in India is not homegenous though collectively they engage in social chauvinism (I used to dismiss the Kerala CPI but this an incorrect idealistic take. You cannot separate the advancement of kerala from their political economy. Though they could be as an organistation/collectively potentially socdem, it took MLs navigating a capitalist country to make these reforms. In other words if they were like every other bourgoisie party then why weren’t these strides replicated elsewhere? You end up having contradictions, therefore, such as hosting hamas/advancing trans rights/high HDI while still endorsing operation Sindoor.)

• the rural naxalites, not discounting their trial and tribulations and have made significant strides in a capitalist society, have an incorrect line and engage in adventurism (which then means terrorism). We should not romanticise them otherwise you get the likes of liberal feel-gooders like A. Roy

• the naxalites vs CPI is effectively what you get if you break up the sickle and hammer respectively; the rural naxalites need the urban proleteriat to have access to development and correct relation with land reform, the urban proleteriat need the peasants to avoid social chauvinism

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• the break-up of Indian subcontinent into India/Pakistan/Bangladesh is hindutva chauvinism/fascism for India and defense against that for the latter two. Nationalism for one and attempts at national liberation for the other two.

• therefore, as others have said India too should reject hindutva chauvinism

• this is not to coddle social conservatism in any religion but within India, given the above, Hindutva and Islamic fundamentalism is a complete false equivalence, and because of the western geopolitics we cannot divorce the islamophobia domestically to what is happening on the world stage. Kashmir, the subjugation of the Indian muslim population and Gaza are all on the same wavelength

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• western tech failing (israeli, french etc by India) against chinese tech (by Pakistan) is going to change the course of global politics and global arms procurement (Russia is also seeing how far more advanced chinese tech is). Indian ceasefire echoes western losses/retreats - overpriced outdated tech against cheaper more advanced ones.

I don’t have time to write a proper post, so the above will do for now

Feels like another Bangladesh moment; western puppetries’ strings being slowly cut off.

For anyone interested, UK poverty report 2024 by the Rowntree Foundation:

https://www.jrf.org.uk/uk-poverty-2024-the-essential-guide-to-understanding-poverty-in-the-uk

This is purposeful underdevelopment under capitalism and effectively it is socio-economic murder. By not guaranteeing economic rights since the bourgoise French Revolution the supposed political rights on offer are meaningless.

However, it is likely going to be a further turn into fascism as most people in poverty in the west see their salvation in the perceived offer of labor aristocracy and peitite bourgois sentiments to them at the expense of those from the global south.

What is their stance on palestinian resistance fighters? (A mini-litmus test for western political parties; if even bourgoise parties around the world can show nominal solidarity in this regard then I feel they should at least meet this low hanging bar)

I wasn’t sure how sincere you were at first but after that response along with your other comments with thinly veiled bigotry it felt a bit pointless explaining to a first world creationist why the universe was not made in 7 days.

You live in a world where the west is arming, funding and giving political cover to an active genocide. You live in a world where you fail to consider what are the democratic feedback loops that enabled one of the most populous countries in the world lift 800 million people out of poverty in the shortest time frame in human history while being surrounded by vassal states armed and funded against it by the west. You live in a world where the west subjugates the global south for superexploitation of its peoples and resources through gunboat diplomacy, sanctions, coups, and racketeering through financial insitutions such as the IMF. And the countries who manage to attempt to maintain their sovereignty in this hell created and maintained by the west you then dare to wag your bloodied finger from the ivory tower built on the bones of those the west massacred.

Go read the ASPI report on China’s technological prowess. Go read the Tricontinental study on the eradication of poverty in China. Go read Vijay Prashad’s Washington Bullets. Go read Kyle Ferrana’s book on China. Go read the Jakharta Method. Go read the articles on China at redsails.org. Go read the articles on prolewiki. Go watch Michael Parenti on youtube. Go read Capital. Educate yourself.

Most of us on this forum were versions of you; your fate is not set in stone.

Thank you for capitulating.

I’m interested in why you think it’s wrong

First, would you be kind enough to answer the following question (and this might involve some time and research in your own part) that will go a long way to prove that you are not a troll:

Why is China signifcantly more democractic than the US?

I am not asking if you truly believe this but whether you have the intellectual curiousity (and I want to clarify this is not an underhand way of commenting on your personal intelligence; I only discovered the answer to that question relatively recently - to my shame) to make the case to answer the above convincingly.

You will have to explore quite a few significant things to be able meaningfully answer this and given that your initial comment suggests apologism for western imperialism it may not be in your perceived class interests to research the answer to that question.

You are by no means obliged to answer and if so then I am not committed to expend energy where it may not be fruitful.

Was this written as satire?

An actual sentence from the Financial Times:

Xi has already signalled that he will treat his ties to Trump as a purely business relationship, albeit Don Corleone style.

On the author:

Medeiros holds a BA in analytic philosophy from Bates College, a MA in China studies from SOAS University of London, a MPhil in international relations from University of Cambridge (as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar), and a PhD in international relations from London School of Economics and Political Science. …an American international relations scholar currently serving as the Penner Family Chair in Asia Studies in the Walsh School of Foreign Service and the Cling Family Distinguished Fellow in U.S.-China Studies at Georgetown University. He is also a senior advisor at The Asia Group, a senior fellow on foreign policy at the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis, a non-resident senior fellow in the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Asia Program, a member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations’ board of directors, a member of the International Advisory Board of Cambridge University’s Centre for Geopolitics, a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a board member of Blackberry Government Solutions

The above gives one an idea the level of education and experience needed to come up with such analysis.

The caliber of the lackeys of imperialism should hopefully give one inspiration and hope.

Snide aside, good post (as always).

Addendum: I wonder if this article was written in an attempt to influence the Trump administration.

It is an unprecedented case. And it risks triggering an unprecedented threat to journalism. The UK police have repeatedly tried to obtain the passwords to the phones of the British independent journalist, Richard Medhurst, the first reporter arrested in London under Section 12: his analyses and comments on Israel’s bloodbath in Gaza – which Amnesty International has characterised as genocide – have been interpreted by the police as support for organisations banned from the UK, such as Hamas and Hezbollah.

The son of two UN peacekeepers, Medhurst was arrested last August at London’s Heathrow Airport: as soon as he landed, he was taken off the by six police officers. In an interview with Il Fatto Quotidiano, Medhurst said that he was on his way to the Beautiful Days Festival, where he was supposed to speak with former British ambassador Craig Murray and British rapper Lowkey. Detained for almost a full day, interrogated for two hours, his two phones, headphones, cables, microphones, sim cards seized. Since then Richard Medhurst has been under investigation for terrorism, if he is indicted and convicted under Section 12, he faces fourteen years in prison.

The simultanenous rage and helplessness stories like these induce can sometimes feel overwhelming.

As always, thanks for your posts and insights (both posts and comments). Literally a one-person global news aggregator (the same applies for a lot of lemmygrad posters).

Thanks, as always, for sharing!

My lucky guess:

I have read that China is not getting rid of their reserve dollars overall suggesting that countries that want to trade in dollars with China can still do but it can now be done without US oversight or control? If that is the case the “de-dollarisation” effect would be much higher than the trade in the above local currencies would imply?

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5964280/5298806

I’m guessing that huge dollar reserve will help give countries buying Chinese USD bonds the confidence they will get paid, and I suspect they may even be happy if that payment in USD comes ultimately in the form of chinese goods, services and even yuan.

I also found bidetmarxman’s thread with indi.ca’s original essay, along with links to above AB and KT’s inputs quite useful:

https://twitter.com/bidetmarxman/status/1859161610390212736

Understanding Capital has allowed the socialists to beat the capitalists at their own game.

It would be interesting to see how Musk’s attempt (well his idea is not particularly original but let’s call it “Musk’s plan” for now) to reduce the US debt will square with potential threat to US treasury bond system of maintaining US global hegemony.

Norton highlights some of the contradictions of Trump’s objectives (again Trump didn’t really come up with any of them but again for sake of brevity I will leave it at that):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJQKIwe2BYo

Edits: clarity/context

It’s common to want peace in the Imperial cores where peace is defined as submission to the West and its capital.

There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror — that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves. Mark Twain, https://redsails.org/the-two-terrors/

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.