Look. I'm not trying to start another pointless struggle session. Far from that, I want each and every one of us to confront this most strange attempt at multilateralism by two of our favourite existing socialisms.

There's no substantial article on the environment. Not a single word on climate or pollution. And nothing on labour issues.

I get that the whole thing is brand new and the member countries will probably amend to add more to the document in later stages.

But now is the point the heads of governments go back to their respective legislative body for ratification. Again, nothing on labour, the environment or the climate.

I want us Chapos to confront the likelihood that existing socialist experiments are faltering, even abandoning, a key promise of socialism to workers: reducing work hours for more leisure time. That, and no idea how trade is going to connect to the climate crisis.

  • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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    4 years ago

    Brush up on your theory.

    The basis of all socialist literature is clearly conclusive that free trade is a part of developing the productive capacity of the Chinese and Vietnamese proletariat, and hence it is a necessary phase as they move from feudalism at the beginning of the 20th century towards socialism.

    The contradictions of climate and labor rights will result in further struggle and revolutionary processes once the economic power of these countries has been advanced to the level where providing the benefits of equitable wages and worker protections and environmental restoration that are impossible to achieve prior to the hurdle of economic output.

    It's a utopian-socialist ideal to think that a country or region's development will skip steps in this very linear and straightforward process. Read Marx, Engels, and Lenin.