Unsurprising to see the euros be salty about the defeat of nazism/fascism.
“Many compare Moscow and Brussels, I’ve heard that … But Moscow is a capital that has been imposed whereas Brussels is a capital that has been freely chosen through our treaties,” said Macron.
Oh fuck off Macron, you little colonist man who still runs an empire.
Reduce gas imports?
Please reduce gas imports more. Cripple any semblance of industry and power you have left. You will only use industrial power for killing children in Gaza and maintaining policing infrastructure either way. Better to let the gas be used by Chinese and Indian consumers (unironically).
The development process of capitalism does not so much as produce “centralisation” (which is ill defined tbh) but socialisation (the conversion of individual labor to group labor), urbanisation and standardisation.
And while someone might quibble over the idea that “centralisation = socialisation”, people in general have all sorts of ideas about what centralisation is, while “socialisation” itself retains a solid definition.
Furthermore, while it is true that socialist society develops out of capitalist society, revolutions are by definition a breaking point in the mode of production which makes the insistence that socialist societies must be highly centralised backwards logic. We are starting from a dislike of anarchism’s dogma of decentralisation and just working backwards.
Not that I necessarily opposed having a highly “centralised” socialist society, but that would be a very reductive way of classifying a mode of production given what we know about networks and production cycles in modern theories.
I think we should strive to develop new marxist models of decentralized systems
I don’t think Marxists, or materialists in general should be concerned about “Centralization” vs “Decentralization” at all. The problem classes that technology solves and solution methods available are numerous, and it is very reductive to lump them into “centralized” or “decentralized” categories. It is an unscientific approach no less bizarre than about whether or not Lebesgue integrals or Riemann sums are more Marxist.
Yeah, I somehow doubt either side is interested in going to nuclear war over a mere terror attack. If there is a war, then at best this will have been the straw that broke the camel’s back.
X is less of a Nazi than Hitler
Very low bar to clear
And so do the hiduvatas. I’m forced to encounter enough of these mfs irl. What’s your point?
No. In this specific situation where everyone else has already slipped the tariffs?
China is the biggest target, it hasn’t been isolated from the world economy or the free trade system. America is making an attempt to isolate china but how many countries will play along?
What soft power they retain will be aimed at “traditional values” crowd
Fair enough. But there is more to soft power than just cultural factors. The reliability of the American market itself is in question, and this is not a good thing. America going with fascist aesthetics is nowhere near as America trying to interfere with the global gravy train.
It is impossible to convince the Europeans to side with the global south out of the goodness of their hearts (which they don’t have). However, fucking with their wallets will cause everyone except the most ardent European hitlerites to rethink their relationship with America.
I think it would be a mistake to view China as isolated in this. First of all, Russia, Vietnam and Iran are pretty strong partners to have. Secondly, there is the BRICS bloc, which has been growing largely due to American abuses of the international finance system. America flip flopping so hard on tariffs and then extorting every country in the world will no doubt cause American soft power to decline rapidly in the coming years as countries grow weary.
Also, on a purely military and industrial basis, China outclasses the whole of the west by such a margin that there really isn’t anything to worry about. China of all countries cannot have its industries decimated short of nuclear strikes.
If china manages its relationship with India we’ll enough that the us can’t get Indian help during ww3, then that’s pretty much checkmate for the us.
Nuclear war or help from India is literally the only possibility of western imperialism ever defeating china (although in either scenario, western imperialism will also collapse).
This is precisely the case. I’m sick of the casual racism and love for imperialism that even the most “left-wing” europeans will just say to my face because they think I am one of them. It is so fundamentally baked into every dominant ideology in europe that it feels like there is no possible escape.
This is the consequence of having an entire continent dedicate itself to colonialism and capitalism for 400 years. Both of these things become the total norm. People in europe don’t even understand what empire is, or what empires do, even the extent of their own existing empire.
I mean, look at Macron’s comments. He literally runs an old school colonial empire (that is thankfully collapsing under his reign). And yet he lectures other countries about “imposing capitals”. I don’t think he even realises he is being hypocritical here, because European ideology has redefined European imperialism as not counting as imperialism.