Like, if tomorrow there was magically communism in all fucking USA+Europe+Australia, how would they de-imperialize their economies?
More importantly, would they? Is the desire for treats and living off other countries stronger than socialism?
Is Europe at least self-food-sufficient?
Europe is integrated with One Belt One Road, so no treat issues there.
The US will be fine foodwise since almost all of the food is domestic or from Mexico/Latin America.
The bigger issue is reorienting the economy. The treats are there, but a lot of people's jobs are dependent on the Empire is some respect (anything from the Military industrial complex to the finance and insurance industry) and they'll have to do something else. It's tricky to imagine what a "de imperialized" economy would even look like at this point , especially in the US.
Eeh they can keep buying cloth made by cheap labor, but should they? More important, what happen with all the minerals they get dirt cheap (or ultimately free) from IMF indebted countries? The factories processing those minerals should move closer to wherever is extracted, and be controlled by the locals from there, not just a fucking multinational moving factories to places with cheap labor.
I'm talking about cutting all financial leeching. That has to fucking destroy Europe, or change it beyond any recognition.
Eh, it'll go to looking like Russia does today imo. Not great, not completely back to the Stone Age either. Europeans are all old as hell and dying out any way, so it's not like they need factories around.
Why?