Heartwarming
It’s hard to hold onto hope. But sometimes it’s all we have left. And I refuse to give up.
the weirdos that hold power might some day act against their own self interests.
I’m confident that, eventually, communism will succeed. The imperialist countries are all rushing downhill, while socialist countries are rising. It’s the time of bleak reaction now, but that reaction is because the forces of socialism are rising while capitalism and imperialism are failing. The global south is steadily developing now thanks to countries like China after periods of underdevelopment at the hands of Europe and the US, and this is also resulting in increasing socialist sympathies.
The global south is steadily developing now thanks to countries like China
To be fair, China is an imperialist power that is supporting the Global South in the same way the West enacted the Marshall Plan for Germany and Japan.
No, that’s nowhere close to reality. China isn’t imperialist, full-stop, and that’s why the countries it trades with and establishes strong ties in the global south recieve multilateral development. When the west does so, it forces privatization of safety nets, sets up millitary bases, creates a class of compradors, and runs an extraction campaign.
i wish i shared your optimism, but i atleast don’t doubt that it will happen eventually.
my pessimism is fueled by my proximity to the developments of us empire’s recent successes in doubling down in latin america and it predicts that a socialist dominating world hegemony will come after a time when the planet is on man-made life support after most of the high profit resource depletion activities have wrought their havoc on the environment and throngs of climate refugees flood the world like it did in the bronze age collapse.
Your fears are valid, of course, but I genuinely think that the violent flailing of the US Empire that is going on right now is out of desparation, and won’t actually work out. It will be messy, though.
No, that’s just an incompetent despot calling the shots. There is enough money and momentum in the US that everyone better fucking hope a more competent piece of shit doesn’t take power when Tacoman dies.
Nah, the world is dedollarizing and the US Empire doesn’t have the industry to keep going.
That’s not what I said. I didn’t say they’re self-sufficient. I said they have the momentum to royally fuck shit up on the way down, especially if someone remotely competent starts pulling the strings.
It will certainly be messy, I agree.
