I can’t tell what this is trying to say, sorry.

Okay, I do oppose people who think China can do no wrong as well, I’m just used to interacting with users who conceal their support for actually balkanizing China with a mask of anti-colonialism.

Sorry. My shields were up.

Then what is your position? If you’re in the global North, then what’s the point of constantly pointing out that both sides are bad when you agree that one side is worse?

It’s like the communists writing letters to Iranian prisoners coinciding with Iran getting invaded. Why now? Why is this your priority?

Well, since we exist in the real world. Tell me. What’s the most likely scenario if China splits up into however many entities you think would be enough to achieve decolonization? I already know it’s a policy of the US government to support this. So, who would benefit the most from that?

I don’t gargle China’s boot, but I think it’s a little hypocritical to equally condemn the US and China as if the two things are comparable. China isn’t in the imperial core and its workers are exploited by Western finance capital, China only passively benefits from looking the other way when they get cheap commodities imported from Africa or India, they are not the ones who actually colonize the global South and cause unequal exchange to exist, they don’t install comprador dictatorships, or engage in imperialist war. In fact, most of the time they side with the anti-imperialist side for realpolitik reasons against the US.

Comparing Western and Eastern chauvinism as if they’re the same is the Western chauvinism I am talking about, you are underplaying Western imperialism and over exaggerating Eastern imperialism to make a false equivalence. China is a tiny empire, but because they’re a tiny empire their active imperialism pretty much ends outside their borders and their interests right now are undermining the power of Western capital, making them extremely useful for the global South to develop into self-sufficiency and break out of neocolonialism. A globalized system of extraction is much worse than a fractured world of many petty empires, a worker’s revolution is much more likely to succeed in the ladder, in the former most of the capital in the world is organized against them.

You should know that imperialism is a systemic thing, not a policy of individual states, that’s not materialist at all. Imperialism is based on monopoly power and is driven by things like unequal exchange and debt trapping, and enforced by things like weaponized specialization, balkanization, and military aid for comprador governments or interventions.

Imperialism has to be fractured into semi equal parts or else the largest part (the West) will just divide and conquer the smaller parts. I support China only in so far as they’re a huge fracture in the previously world-spanning neoliberal empire of finance and oil based in the West. God willing, it fractures further.

I actually am pro-purity test, especially on the English speaking internet which is filled with Amerikkkans, Englanders, and Klanadians. Those people should only be accepted in leftist spaces after they have erased all of the vestiges of their Western supremacism.

Well are you what I just described? The meme is complaining about Western chauvinists, are you not opposed to that?

Wow, this many down-votes, already? You throw an insult on the floor and its recipients come to pick it up.

Bullying works.

“Nuanced.”

You’re gonna have fun reading them, especially, George Jackson. He’d have a lot to say about you.

“my concept”

Okay, it’s just slop. I wasted my god damn time, there was no point in arguing with this person. Go develop your own diy special snowflake political alignment, then.

“It would also have huge advantages for a state to dissolve the problem of state debt.”

Have you heard of the Dunning Kruger effect? Well, you’re on the peak of Mt. Stupid and set up camp there. Now your brain is dying from the lack of oxygen.

Yup

I’m new to Lemmy I don’t know how stuff works.

There it’s enclosed in the spoiler now and not cluttering up the comments.

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Darwin is a terrible example because biologists didn’t throw out Darwin did they? I guess general relativity is a bunk theory and nobody should read about it, because now we know it’s probably only a low energy limit of some kind of 11 dimesional superstring theory.

Here:

Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher written in 2009.

Women, Race and Class written by Angela Davis in 1981. (This one is a really good analysis of slavery in America.)

Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson was written in 1970. (I haven’t read this one, but it’s on my list. It definitely is still relevant: the horrific oppression of black people by the US carceral system is still ongoing and you can make comparisons to the treatment of immigrants.)

Kwame Nkrumah wrote Neo-Colonialism, The Last Stage of Imperialism in 1965 exactly coinciding with the release of the first ever desktop computer, the P101.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b98HfZPWpyQ This is a good video on the topic.

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why are trains catching strays? I love trains.

Have you read the books? You should really read the books. It certainly can’t hurt.