On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 03:25 PM, Charlie wrote: > > Is the US-China contradiction one between a monopoly capitalist power and > a socialist country, or is it a contradiction between a decaying monopoly > capitalist power and an expanding one? The 1930s saw a peace movement, > too. Even Neville Chamberlain joined it.
The issue is not the class character of the Chinese state which has been debated endlessly on this list and on the Marxist left more generally. The issue here is whether there is reason for concern that a confrontation between two nuclear-armed powers - even for argument’s sake, " a decaying monopoly capitalist power and an expanding one” as you describe - could escalate into a nuclear war. Clearly you think (or prefer to think) there’s no reason for such concern. Instead, you recite the talking points of US strategists and their media mouthpieces who, far from their own border, see China as the "aggressor" and favour a more confrontational military and economic posture towards the PRC as an alternative to “appeasing” it as Chamberlain appeased Nazi Germany. How, one might ask, is it a “revolutionary” position to lend support to one (decaying) capitalist state against another ostensibly capitalist (expanding) one, particularly given the stakes involved for the world’s peoples? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#29384): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/29384 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/104830403/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
