What I mean when I say that is that I DO think that ‘multipolarity’ is potentially a competing post-capitalist project to that of the world-state. China being a rising hegemon in the Arrighian sense would mean it’s ready to step into the breach as the leading agent of global capitalism. However, China really isn’t behaving like a rising hegemon — just one example is retaining capital controls that make it impossible for the yuan to be a plausible reserve currency. I do think there is a China-led transformation underway — I strongly object to writing off things like BRI — but one towards a world-system that will hopefully be more equitable than the capitalist one
As to all these failed attempts of the U.S. to impose itself on the world or create a new world order: there is one place where this happened. That is to say internally. This is in the U. S. itself. There are these pseudo-leftist persons we have now, speaking gibberish. They to my knowledge just waltzed right in and took over without opposition. Nobody was there to fight them. The system just failed. With all the creative persons fleeing public life, giving up, there were no leaders at all, in the universities, and everywhere else. With things up for grabs like that, then, over the eighties and nineties, these total opportunists entered. By 2020 they had power. They are the ones called the 'Woke.' Their story is that they are leftist., rather than rightist. Whatever: they are really bad whatever they "really" are. Who knows? This is the worst. Alas, a total power take-over of US/America is now complete. We do not control any of those other places, but totalitarian control is instead taking place within. The Afghans or Taliban were not weak. The Iraqis were not weak. But the U. S. was. So that is what got taken over, and from within. And it seems like one of the last good places to talk, one of the last places left, is Substack. (I thought your article was very good by the way. I enjoyed it.)
Why do you think China is not part of a new hegemonic cycle?
I realize I could’ve worded this much better
What I mean when I say that is that I DO think that ‘multipolarity’ is potentially a competing post-capitalist project to that of the world-state. China being a rising hegemon in the Arrighian sense would mean it’s ready to step into the breach as the leading agent of global capitalism. However, China really isn’t behaving like a rising hegemon — just one example is retaining capital controls that make it impossible for the yuan to be a plausible reserve currency. I do think there is a China-led transformation underway — I strongly object to writing off things like BRI — but one towards a world-system that will hopefully be more equitable than the capitalist one
Very interesting. I agree with your POV
As to all these failed attempts of the U.S. to impose itself on the world or create a new world order: there is one place where this happened. That is to say internally. This is in the U. S. itself. There are these pseudo-leftist persons we have now, speaking gibberish. They to my knowledge just waltzed right in and took over without opposition. Nobody was there to fight them. The system just failed. With all the creative persons fleeing public life, giving up, there were no leaders at all, in the universities, and everywhere else. With things up for grabs like that, then, over the eighties and nineties, these total opportunists entered. By 2020 they had power. They are the ones called the 'Woke.' Their story is that they are leftist., rather than rightist. Whatever: they are really bad whatever they "really" are. Who knows? This is the worst. Alas, a total power take-over of US/America is now complete. We do not control any of those other places, but totalitarian control is instead taking place within. The Afghans or Taliban were not weak. The Iraqis were not weak. But the U. S. was. So that is what got taken over, and from within. And it seems like one of the last good places to talk, one of the last places left, is Substack. (I thought your article was very good by the way. I enjoyed it.)