I wonder if he's been seething watching as the American hegemony he spent his career building rots away because of the incompetence of his successors? After the dissolution of the USSR there was a very nearly unipolar balance of power with Russia as a client state of the US and China serving as a manufacturing base for the US, and since then the US managed to lose hold of its puppets in Russia by alienating them and throwing them away when they started to back off of the extremist policies the US wanted, and China has risen to become a stronger geopolitical and economic rival than the USSR was in many ways, while the US has continued to lose its grasp and now just throws its weight around wildly while collapsing internally.
Its also his fault and incompetence for thinking Deng didnt mean the things he was writting about (or not even reading them idk) and that the PRC just ambandoned any socialist project and (western) capital would soon take over their political system. Im sure after the fall of the USSR he kinda bought into the end of history thing as well
I wonder if he would admit rn , and thats true even if China doesnt become socialist, that Deng won the thing
I bet he was only thinking of how much power the US would have for the rest of his life under the arrangement, and either didn't expect to live this long or China to grow so fast. Selfish fucker
and China has risen to become a stronger geopolitical and economic rival than the USSR was in many ways,
Yeah absolutely. I saw a cool chart showing the balance of world trade in like the 80's vs today. The Soviet Union was extremely isolated and only the main trading partner of a few small countries. China is HUGE by comparison, absolutely dominant.
They were too fucking greedy. Capitalism could easily sustain itself in the Imperial core if it provided some semblance of a support structure for the working class. Instead they've chosen to go down the road of throwing people under the bus in the name of profits. They're so short sighted it's kind of amazing.
Realpolitik is completely in character for him.
I wonder if he's been seething watching as the American hegemony he spent his career building rots away because of the incompetence of his successors? After the dissolution of the USSR there was a very nearly unipolar balance of power with Russia as a client state of the US and China serving as a manufacturing base for the US, and since then the US managed to lose hold of its puppets in Russia by alienating them and throwing them away when they started to back off of the extremist policies the US wanted, and China has risen to become a stronger geopolitical and economic rival than the USSR was in many ways, while the US has continued to lose its grasp and now just throws its weight around wildly while collapsing internally.
In that case if the US continues down this trajectory, maybe it's alright for him to stay alive, just to watch it all happen.
Being cursed to watch all he worked for crumble before him is a nice consolation prize ngl
This is what I've been wishing on him the whole time, death is too merciful
Honestly the only revenge we're likely to get.
Its also his fault and incompetence for thinking Deng didnt mean the things he was writting about (or not even reading them idk) and that the PRC just ambandoned any socialist project and (western) capital would soon take over their political system. Im sure after the fall of the USSR he kinda bought into the end of history thing as well
I wonder if he would admit rn , and thats true even if China doesnt become socialist, that Deng won the thing
:deng-cowboy:
I bet he was only thinking of how much power the US would have for the rest of his life under the arrangement, and either didn't expect to live this long or China to grow so fast. Selfish fucker
Yeah absolutely. I saw a cool chart showing the balance of world trade in like the 80's vs today. The Soviet Union was extremely isolated and only the main trading partner of a few small countries. China is HUGE by comparison, absolutely dominant.
They were too fucking greedy. Capitalism could easily sustain itself in the Imperial core if it provided some semblance of a support structure for the working class. Instead they've chosen to go down the road of throwing people under the bus in the name of profits. They're so short sighted it's kind of amazing.