History is a hell of a drug. If it works, we will never know untill after the fact, that it will have been worth it. Anything will have been worth it. If china creates the future falgsc all of human history will be rendered a footnote.
Did the USSR fail yes? Could they have known the things they were doing wouldn't work? No.
The only data is that failure, destruction by imperalists, and further degredation are the most likely outcomes. So every bit where china isn't moving as gast as we'd like has to be weighed against a seccond hundred years of misery and the revitalization of western powers. Compared to that, a little state capitlaism is worth it to blunt the risk.
But even so. China is less than one lifetime old. You can really only call 40 or so of those years in any way modern. And in that time they have done wonders. So both optimism and fear are appropriate.
I know the mantra "no political work goes wasted" has some utility here but the thought of the possibility that I could spend years or even decades of my life backing the wrong horse and acting as an unwitting enemy of the correct path haunts me to no end.
Correct path? There are two paths in this story. Us and China. If china was bad, they'd be on our side. What other side is worth considering? even if china ends up failing, there is no better horse in the race.
It will be hundreds of years before someone else will get to try. And there is no reason to think their campfire tales of the sunken cities of cuba and vietnam will give them better odds than china has with the biggest richest country on earth with all the means of production in it.
History is a hell of a drug. If it works, we will never know untill after the fact, that it will have been worth it. Anything will have been worth it. If china creates the future falgsc all of human history will be rendered a footnote.
Did the USSR fail yes? Could they have known the things they were doing wouldn't work? No.
The only data is that failure, destruction by imperalists, and further degredation are the most likely outcomes. So every bit where china isn't moving as gast as we'd like has to be weighed against a seccond hundred years of misery and the revitalization of western powers. Compared to that, a little state capitlaism is worth it to blunt the risk.
But even so. China is less than one lifetime old. You can really only call 40 or so of those years in any way modern. And in that time they have done wonders. So both optimism and fear are appropriate.
I know the mantra "no political work goes wasted" has some utility here but the thought of the possibility that I could spend years or even decades of my life backing the wrong horse and acting as an unwitting enemy of the correct path haunts me to no end.
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Correct path? There are two paths in this story. Us and China. If china was bad, they'd be on our side. What other side is worth considering? even if china ends up failing, there is no better horse in the race.
It will be hundreds of years before someone else will get to try. And there is no reason to think their campfire tales of the sunken cities of cuba and vietnam will give them better odds than china has with the biggest richest country on earth with all the means of production in it.