Something similar to the USSR? Maybe. But not in Russia.
In South America and Africa, however? Things are looking really promising. China, Belt & Road and other factors are helping countries in those two regions escape Western financial control. We’re still seeing reactionary coups go off like clockwork, but the US is having trouble keeping up.
Qaddafi’s attempt at a pan-African currency and union might have been quashed, but the idea’s out there: the knowledge that it’s possible, that it would have happened had the US not intervened. People in Africa know what was going on there, and they’re angry about it. China’s behaviour in the region puts in stark contrast what the Imperialists have done. Insert platitudes about how you can’t kill an idea here.
Same deal for South America. What happened to Evo Morales is fresh on people’s minds, they haven’t forgotten what happened to Allende, and everything else in between. The US has fucked with that region so much that nobody’s under any illusions. It was just inescapable until recently. And now we’re seeing ideas about a trade union for Lithium in addition to oil. That’s further paving the way to greater union.
It’s just that in both cases, if something starts happening towads a greater political union the US-led hegemony will aggressively prioritize destroying it. And that’s where the current political climate comes into it. If Western economies crash while the global South is able to ride out the shockwave of that crash by virtue of being much less dependent on the US dollar economy, then the opportunity arises for those regions to organise something while the West is too gassed (literally and figuratively) to do anything about it.
Something similar to the USSR? Maybe. But not in Russia.
In South America and Africa, however? Things are looking really promising. China, Belt & Road and other factors are helping countries in those two regions escape Western financial control. We’re still seeing reactionary coups go off like clockwork, but the US is having trouble keeping up.
Qaddafi’s attempt at a pan-African currency and union might have been quashed, but the idea’s out there: the knowledge that it’s possible, that it would have happened had the US not intervened. People in Africa know what was going on there, and they’re angry about it. China’s behaviour in the region puts in stark contrast what the Imperialists have done. Insert platitudes about how you can’t kill an idea here.
Same deal for South America. What happened to Evo Morales is fresh on people’s minds, they haven’t forgotten what happened to Allende, and everything else in between. The US has fucked with that region so much that nobody’s under any illusions. It was just inescapable until recently. And now we’re seeing ideas about a trade union for Lithium in addition to oil. That’s further paving the way to greater union.
It’s just that in both cases, if something starts happening towads a greater political union the US-led hegemony will aggressively prioritize destroying it. And that’s where the current political climate comes into it. If Western economies crash while the global South is able to ride out the shockwave of that crash by virtue of being much less dependent on the US dollar economy, then the opportunity arises for those regions to organise something while the West is too gassed (literally and figuratively) to do anything about it.