This is a good read, and I was very much expecting to disagree with it going in. It basically aligns with where I am:
Whatever China may have aspired to during the Cultural Revolution, it has become another Capitalist, Imperialist, wannabe hegemon. Xi is sitting exactly where Trump wants to, with a lifelong appointment and unlimited control.
I won’t rehash my issues with Leninism and the abject backwardness of creating an all-powerful Single-party State and then believing that it will ever willingly dissolve itself into a Stateless society, but suffice it to say that I think China proves out that Authoritarianism is the default fail-state of centralized governments, no matter their aspirations. That’s not to say they’ll all get there, but it is to say that the self-preserving and authority-maintaining aspects of government inherently bias it towards centralized, authority-based control, not distributed, democratic cooperation and consensus.
This is a good read, and I was very much expecting to disagree with it going in. It basically aligns with where I am:
Whatever China may have aspired to during the Cultural Revolution, it has become another Capitalist, Imperialist, wannabe hegemon. Xi is sitting exactly where Trump wants to, with a lifelong appointment and unlimited control.
I won’t rehash my issues with Leninism and the abject backwardness of creating an all-powerful Single-party State and then believing that it will ever willingly dissolve itself into a Stateless society, but suffice it to say that I think China proves out that Authoritarianism is the default fail-state of centralized governments, no matter their aspirations. That’s not to say they’ll all get there, but it is to say that the self-preserving and authority-maintaining aspects of government inherently bias it towards centralized, authority-based control, not distributed, democratic cooperation and consensus.