sodium_nitride [she/her, any]

Domestic policy is always linked to foreign policy (no marxist-leninist should ever deny this), but we’ll have to “agree to disagree” about how much causal weight colorism specifically should be given here. Not that capitalism is a linear system to begin with assignable weights to causal inputs.

What it comes down to is this part

in this context the Indian elite act like Honorary Aryans, they would like to be the top “Whites” so exceeding the US would not be outside of their class paradigms.

Increasing wealth and accumulating value are fundamental drives of capitalism. White or not, the desire to be seen as Honorary aryans has little to do with it. And it’s not as if they can’t keep acting white while the nation itself pursues a nationalist capitalist development path (look at Russian liberals)

It was a nod to white supremacism.

The Indian ruling class has colorist and pro-western brainworms, but using the ideas of white-supremacy to say anything about the decisions they will make in the long-run just boils down to a form of idealism.

It would be no different from me saying that the Americans wouldn’t mind becoming Ukraine 2.0 because America has a lot of nazis.

I’m not so sure at present. There is a reason why Fair and Lovely is still a billion dollar industry.

I have to say that this is a really idealistic and frankly dumb comment. The actions taken by the ruling class of a nation depend on the class situation and economy. And India is too big as a single political entity to just remain as a vasal/dickriders in the long term to the US. As Indian capital accumulates, the national bourgeoise of India will not be content with being mere subordinates.

The situation is different with Japan, south Korea, and the EU. The former 2 were directly militarily occupied by the US. The latter is highly divided, and its members were also militarily occupied by the US during WW2 and the cold war.

Cirno (I’m bad at math)

At the end of the day, the electoral system is a contest of strength between 2 or more cults of personality. This is more prevalent in some countries than other, but the very basic aspect of representative “democracy”, aka elections (selecting a person to rule) basically boils down to giving a few people the power to make decisions for everybody else. It’s dictatorial by nature.

Anti-China propaganda has gotten real lazy these days. This is what the Americans are getting for 1.6 billion dollars?

There’s no way that’s true, right? Surely, the program would be smarter?