Re: Send in the Chinese?

[Victor <vrosado@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> It takes us to a more general discussion, that of up to which point the 20th.
> Century was a long parenthetical age and in which exact sense we are back in
> the situation that led to World War I.
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The situation is this:  capital must secure access to cheap natural
resources (Oil, Gas, etc.) and expand the market into new arenas (China,
Southeast Asia, and Russia).  Global capital now has reached a saturation
point and must find new ways of expanding, much like the early 20th century
but under different historical circumstances. The trick is, however, that
expanding into less developed countries will only augment the difference in
wealth between rich and poor, not make poorer countries richer,
technologically advanced, etc. as the neoliberals promise.

A possible benefit of all this is that maybe everyone throughout the world
will start pointing the finger at those that really cause the problems of
the world-- the ruling global economic elite.  However, there is no
guarantee that this will happen; fascism and fundamentalism are just as
likely to spring up and filter revolutionary energy into dead end movements.

We must act now and keep organizing international resistance movements
before the impending global ecological crises and wars (nuclear?) of the
21st century destroy the majority of the human race.

-Victor