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  • I completely disagree, these small wins have costed the US and Europe all of their global credibility and have completely polarized their populations, it may seem that nothing ever happens but these things will eventually have consequences. They are also facing a very dangerous property crisis and the increasingly growing threat of dedollarization, people like saying that “China does nothing” but it’s not true, the Chinese people have never been one to sit back and relax, while the West continues to sink their resources and public image into Israel/Ukraine, China continues to strenghten ties in Asia, Africa and latín america while developing alternatives to the financial monopoly of the West.

    Sure it sucks what has happened in Syria and Gaza, but in the grand scheme of things, they’re gonna end up being Israel problem, the people of Syria won’t keep their heads down so the wahhabist chop them, it will inevitably blowback.



  • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlJust baffling
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    8 days ago

    Butchering the definition, imperialism is the monopolist stage of capitalism, specifically the monopoly of finance capital. This can be expanded but there is no point in doing so here.

    The monopoly on finance capital is already formed by a cartel of mostly american+european financial institutions and so on. These countries are what we call imperialist, we do not call Russia imperialist simply because they do not have this monopoly and are actively fighting against it, their future ambitions are a story for another day.

    Let’s say that somehow the cartel completely disappeared and banks were to start from zero again, a bunch of local banks would emerge all around the world. As time went on, the most efficient banks would inevitably best its competitors, consolidate their position and gain increasingly more market share, until it becomes a local monopoly, then they go global and the process repeats until a global monopoly is formed, this is what happens on every single industry.

    This is an inevitable outcome of capitalism simply due the nature of capital growing, capital stagnates when it faces competition so capitalists inevitably organize into cartels to consolidate a monopoly. The only way to do some sort of “checked capitalism” is to completely strip capitalists off political power through a violent revolution, like China did.

    When Cowbee says that capitalism decays and leads into imperialism this is what i think he means, and he is right.