Not gonna lie, china felt like the enemy a few months ago. Now they feel like the sane alternative to being allies with the us. Not saying they are the good guy, but certainly better than the us is.
China = USSR USA = N@Z Germany
Starting to look this way
I think the key difference is that Xi has a very strong vision for China and is actually practicing what he preaches; enriching the nation rather than enriching himself. Like a strict father, head of the family.
While the debacle that is the US government is all about enriching themselves and their associates rather than the nation. Like goblins in a mine.
Like a strict father
Is politics just the spectrum of daddy issues an individual might have?
That's less a consequence of specific individuals in power and more the systems at play that lead to differences between those in power. "Great Man Theory" largely takes away from actual Materialist analysis.
Classless society when?
When the foundations for classes are erased, through full public ownership in a global Socialist economy. Industry has to advance to that level.
And that can only happen when capitalism stops being the dominant global ideology.
Of course! Hence why Imperialism is the primary contradiction, and why the US Empire's latest trend of nakedly tearing out its own foundations in favor of short-term profits is likely going to be a major topic in future history books.
exactly right
It's really about what's more important to you and where you set your priorities. Or maybe it's actually about being short-sighted or far-sighted.
The US seems to believe that having "rich" people and a poor-rich divide will somehow foster or speed up technological development. I would say that is an almost religious belief. I don't really agree with it too much personally, and also i don't like how they approach their population as "wave slaves" who are threatened with starvation and homelessness if they don't work; but also i'm not gonna interfere with US internal affairs.
I really do think that all the "corporation" things are short-sighted, and it is wise to take the "long-run" perspective and ask what will be in a 1000 years, in a billion years.
I do think that being a bully like the US is is short-sighted, an in fact disadvantageous in the long run, because it makes people distrust them, and that's a thing that puts you in a disadvantageous position in general.
Just the fact that financial crimes over a certain amount are punishable by death in China (and people have actually been executed for them) says a lot. It's a law that literally applies only to the rich because a normal person would never even get to glimpse the amount of money required for execution to be on the table.
George Carlin skit about executing corrupt bankers on live TV
He was right, too. A few bankers and politicians get the wall and, what do you know, suddenly being very rich is good enough for a bunch of these corrupt fucks.