We are in capitalism’s final stage, where global capital can’t expand or sustain past profits. It now consumes public institutions and key systems, sacrificing democracy, welfare, infrastructure, education, healthcare, and ecosystems for short-term gain.
Hey, let’s do what the Chinese did. Stage a revolution that dismantles the old elite order and unifies the country. Let’s ban tribalism and crush entrenched capitalist interests. Let’s wage a struggle against imperial domination and rally under a revolutionary party capable of providing decades of disciplined, consistent leadership. Let’s support a leader ruthless enough to root out the internal saboteurs that inevitably emerge within revolutionary systems themselves.
Then let’s endure a long period of isolationism, however painful, to build internal cohesion, resilience, and self-sufficiency. Let’s make mistakes along the way, admit those mistakes honestly, correct them, and move forward.
And once the hard, ugly work is done, let’s have a pragmatic leader willing to look beyond ideological purity, negotiate even with enemies, and extract concessions from them. Let’s exploit the opportunism of rival powers to our own advantage and use it to expand the economy. Let’s play the long game.
You see, when people point to China and tell us to “do what China did,” they almost always begin the story at the point where China was already developed. That’s what makes the conversation so laughable to me. It is pure fantasy.
You do not become China without the ideological foundation, the sacrifices, the social discipline, and the decades of consistency that produced the development people admire today. There is no half-stepping on that journey.
And for me, I already know in my mind that if a society truly wants that outcome, then all of those difficult stages would have to be confronted sooner or later. We might as well start preparing ourselves now.
Westerners think it’s a fumble when powerful states refuse to be brutal transcontinental colonizers.
This is why they can’t fathom China’s geopolitical posture even today; their entire view of China, and many other rising powers, is shaped by their own history and assumptions.
These are civilizations that built reputations on dominating and suppressing others.
They remember what they did to the world when they held so much power and can’t understand why others with similar power historically and even today are more restrained.
Y’all let these folks convince y’all burning down businesses is violence, but those same businesses and corporations that literally poison the air you breathe and the water you drink, is just the cost of business. Y’all have been convinced your lives are worth less than buildings
First World and comprador leftists who bitch on about how "multipolarity does not end capitalism" should realize that the same thing can be said about many of their own causes, from sectorial strikes (often white collar middle class or blue collar ones enjoying natural monopolies) to university fees protests.
You still fight for local restitution from capitalism even if it doesn't lead to its immediate abolition, and we're doing ours too by ensuring that not all the superprofits go to the imperial metropoles. If you shit on the latter then we're not obliged to solidarize with you in your struggles either.
if you are someone who was able to overlook the genocide and cast a vote for kamala harris, then you already understand how a conservative was able to overlook Trump's extremism to vote for him.
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A southern Lebanese woman is interviewed after her home was heavily damaged in a z!onist airstrike, that targeted the 'Qard Al Hasan' bank branch near her home.
Listen to her noble response.
These are the women who raise our treasures on the frontlines ❤️