You will get not argument from this quarter on China's military role. The
point of post was that the changing of the imperialist pecking order, although
accompanied by military might (which is ultimately a measure of economic
power,) is not necessarily achieved by bombs and bullets, small skirmishes
aside. The power of the purse allowed the USA to emerge as top dog after WWI.
Likewise today the relative decline of the US and rise of China is apparent
more in the economic than military realm.
The reason this is relevant is there remains (besides those who do not
recognize the restoration of capitalism in China at all) a layer of leftists
who argument that China is not imperialist is based on its insignificant
military role in the world.
Of course such is not a Marxist qualification and emanates mostly from the
pacifist friends of China who see its rise at the head of the BRICS and SCO as
a net gain for humanity. Their implied suggestion is that the working class
need not take power as the contradictions of capitalism can be resolved with
"sustainable development" and the use of hybrid market-socialism, Win Win deals
and integration into the BRI.
>From Roy Singham to Jeffery Sachs to NUMSA, Code Pink and of emanating from
>Xi and probably agreed with by Putin the You Tubers like Danny Haiphong and
>the likes of Pepe Escobar champion the emergent new world alignment.
Obviously, I lump together capitalist ideologues, pacifists and various
Stalinists here but from them we hear the same refrain, China is not a
military thug on the world stage and the only real significant imperialist
today is the USA. Such gibberish disarms the international working class, is
ultimately social imperialist as they tell workers to make common cause with
the new imperialist competitor.
Charles R
"The working class and the employing class have nothing in common." IWW
founding congress opening statement
On Friday, September 6, 2024 at 08:16:17 AM PDT, Charlie
<[email protected]> wrote:
The quote captures part of it. But Filipino fishermen will tell you that China
is a military aggressor, too. So would Vietnam tell you that about Chinese
aggression against its research ship, except Vietnam dares not speak up too
much. And every country around the East and South China Seas will show you the
ten-dash line (it used to be only nine dashes, but it was expanded a couple of
years ago) that China insists on instead of agreeing to mutual sharing of the
undersea riches.
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