It's gradually becoming obvious to everyone that the idea of outsourcing biological reproduction to the third world was ill-conceived.
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Third world is rising while the West is collapsing. You did this to yourselves with your imperialist capitalism.
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Replying to @PatthewMallares
East Asia is rising (by adopting a more full-throttle version of the capitalism that the West has abandoned).
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Replying to @Outsideness
Does more full-throttle mean diplomacy, trade & cooperation rather than invasion, plundering & manipulation ?
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Replying to @PatthewMallares @Outsideness
The reason Africal leaders prefer to do business with China than with Western powers is not that Western powers "plunder", but that they...
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...always try to put moral pressure on the rulers to be more democratic, embezzle less of the treasury, kill fewer rivals, etc.
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By contrast, China does not put pressure on the rulers that way, but turns a blind eye, and cuts whatever deals make sense financially.
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China is far more extractive in its approach than the British Empire was. It is in Africa purely for its own benefit, whereas the Empire...
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...was guided by liberal utopianism, and transferred British taxpayers' money to Africa to develop education, healthcare, infrastructure &c.
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Imperialism is what you get when the capitalists stop running it. Leftist "upgrade" of colonialism.
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Replying to @Outsideness @PatthewMallares
Indeed. At first, of course, it was liberal paternalism of the kind despised by Herbert Spencer -- full socialism not having yet kicked in.
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Meanwhile, today's Left's cries against imperialism are mere dogmatic parroting of Lenin, who knew nothing at all about Western imperialism.
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