That is pretty much it, and it’s ironic that the Democrats antagonising Putin at every turn (see Bernie Sanders calling him a “murderer” in every speech) might benefit the world by preventing that alliance. I think at this point we shouldn’t stake all our hopes on China for international revolution.
This is however absurd. China is not imperialist, they will not willingly be imperialist. They are trying their hardest to free the world of imperialism and they will not be invited to any speculative US-Russia imperialism club or offered a seat there as there are no extra profits to be shared by the western capitalists who are desperate at this point because of the falling rates of profit and collapsing neo-colonialism.
I wouldn’t argue that China is imperialist in character right now, though its economy certainly benefits to a certain extent from the North-South divide and the dependent capitalist economies of peripheral countries. Its bourgeoisie also engages in capital exportation and financialization for hyper-exploited sectors, for example in ride-sharing apps or soybean farming. But it’s not imperialist in character simply because its state apparatus does not enforce this dependency by any means and it respects foreign nations when they intervene in their own economies.
But in case these shifting alliances ever create the occasional alignments where Russia and the US enforce conditions for Chinese bourgeois profipts with no intervention from the Party, I believe it would be fair to see China as complicit in imperialism. Though I already don’t think the Russia alignment is likely, this one is more a worry than anything.
That is pretty much it, and it’s ironic that the Democrats antagonising Putin at every turn (see Bernie Sanders calling him a “murderer” in every speech) might benefit the world by preventing that alliance. I think at this point we shouldn’t stake all our hopes on China for international revolution.
I wouldn’t argue that China is imperialist in character right now, though its economy certainly benefits to a certain extent from the North-South divide and the dependent capitalist economies of peripheral countries. Its bourgeoisie also engages in capital exportation and financialization for hyper-exploited sectors, for example in ride-sharing apps or soybean farming. But it’s not imperialist in character simply because its state apparatus does not enforce this dependency by any means and it respects foreign nations when they intervene in their own economies.
But in case these shifting alliances ever create the occasional alignments where Russia and the US enforce conditions for Chinese bourgeois profipts with no intervention from the Party, I believe it would be fair to see China as complicit in imperialism. Though I already don’t think the Russia alignment is likely, this one is more a worry than anything.