This is the case most of time.
This is not what I said. I only said that once poor people earn some money, they usually love to buy expensive things.
This is the case most of time.
This is not what I said. I only said that once poor people earn some money, they usually love to buy expensive things.
China has to play by America's rules because they'ret the ones who run the world at the moment.
Well they can: buy oil in their own currency , write their own trade-rules, and crude military subjugation is not possible at at least regionally. What exists now is American hegemony that is based on system lag, it takes a while for the underlying reality to fully manifest itself.
Sure, China is going to be the hegemonic capitalist superpower sooner or later, but I see absolutely no reason to believe they will suddenly become socialist then
China could considerably extend its influence over parts of Asia but that's it, Chinese geography is too limiting for more than that, also the age of maritime-power as means to empire is coming to an end , and areal-power will eventually suffer the same fate. There is a sizable faction in China that does push for socialism, whether they can become the dominant political force, is kinda open, but you have to admit if you get a socialist power that starts out at the heights of technological development, rather than one that has to play catch-up, it's going to be game over for capitalism.
In the first tier cities, yes liberal-ish bourgeois and petty-bourgeois sentiments are dominant, but not in the rest of the country
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His collected essays are really interesting cause you can see the descent into chauvinism, anti-communism and general crankery in the 40s. Orwell was a bad socialist but a good political commentator. So yes, reading those gives you a better perspective on 1984 as you realize he REALLY is talking about Britain.
The ☭TANKIE☭s aren't wrong when they chastise him. The mythos of anti-soviet libertarian socialism needs to die if we want socialism in the 21st century to go more the way we like it.
but I'm an ML myself. Orwell was completely a product of his time and was subject to constant English (and Spanish) propaganda. In his time there were no peer-reviewed computer databases or online forums you could just browse through to pick up global intelligence.
What you're doing is the equivalent of dismissing Marx because he was wrong about the deskilling of labor.
You're not wrong, but in the end his leaning towards anti-communism got too heavy. In 1984 he popularized multiple memes about the USSR which still persist
he was pretty critical of the bourgeoise to the end, too