I don't think that having armed fascists ready to take things over in vase an election doesn't go your way is ever good really.

I'd have been a communist had I lived in Italy in those times for sure

In the present moment I do support nato actions to prevent russia expanding into ukraine. Case by case

Is it? I wouldn't be surprised but I hadn't heard that. I wasn't saying that in regards to only chips though, was more in regards to the fact the financial speculators getting scared aren't just in the american sector

also on the chip talk should i cop a new laptop right away since i spilt water on my old one

Yeah it very recently became bigger despite the US sanctioning CHYNA's chip market

semiconductors.org/chinas-share-of-global-chip-sales-now-surpasses-taiwan-closing-in-on-europe-and-japan

okay, i did find this but i wonder what metric they're using? because it shows the US as having like 40% of the worldwide market share which i believe is true in ownership but not in domestic manufacturing

voanews.com/a/us-congress-moves-toward-52-billion-in-subsidies-for-semiconductor-firms/6667675.html

$52B in domestic semiconductor subsidiaries yeah that'll fix it

I'm not sure I only rly read about it in passing but I wonder how it relates to what you said and if chyna has the upperhand here

im having deja vu rn

I just don't understand technology

china has the upper hand in regards to manufacturing and grip on supply chain but they have the same issue in a very similar scope to the US as far as having issues with overvaluation and a postponed economic correction.

a lot of youtubers and news sites are trying to click bait and be like "CHINA IS OVER - THE STATE IS FAILING!! (PROOF) (REAL)" because they dont understand that like no the actual issue is China did the inverse of what the US did, massive amounts of Chinese market valuation came from the counterpart of the US's hyper-inflated overvaluations so a correction to the US finance & tech sectors hurt China because of the pairing of the markets.

This is combined with whatever other domestic issues China has (housing market issue exists but it's massively overplayed by western media for clicks, it's not US 08). China has an upperhand over the US in terms of supply chain & domestic manufacturing but its a little separate since economically they're still largely playing by hegemonic global economic rules and that doesn't matter as much as underlying financials

gonna write a 20 thread twitter post how are China and USA are like in an toxic abusive relationship

gonna be figuring out what astrology signs china and the us represent in a toxic relationship to better convey the dire nature of the economic situation to white women

This all has happened before. Many boomer right-wingers were tankies in their youth. In fact, some of most important Bush-era neocons were Trotskyite radicals in the 60's. Same happened in Europe. Universities were full of "student radicals" who later became Reagan and Thatcher supporters. The true radicals of the sixties were killed, sent to prison or became complete outcasts. We are seeing the same thing going on now.

I think what explains that is that being a communist was sort of phase for many. They do it in order to piss off their parents and because they think it's cool. There is no real substance in it. So, when the tankies then grow up and they have bills to pay, they just turn to capitalism because it can give them money. Deep down they are just selfish persons who usually come from privileged homes and don't give a damn about workers. Being a communist is just something they do for themselves. It makes them feel good about themselves because as tankies they can "trigger the libs" without being homophobic and racist.

lol i’m always for idpol criticism but 87% of the time it just becomes some reactionary bs

Stupidpol syndrome

when i think about the depth of meandering on the question of what is/isn't counted as identity politics and is/isn't reactionary it makes me consider becoming a third worldist

being a "communist" is definitely a phase for a lot of these edgy wealthy kids i meet in uni tho. like they'll have a picture of Marx as their phone background, a copy of the Manifesto in their backpack, and like they might post some mutual aid things on their stories. but they're not in a worker or tenant organization/union, they're not well informed, and it feels like they just like to appropriate marxist aesthetics to be different lol

This is a great article

Ive been telling folks on this thread to read the entire book/journal/collection of articles (~150 pages) for like a year now. Best book on china ive ever read

usually i used identity politics as of focusing on identity without relating it back to class or acknowledging that class is the primary contradiction , and reactionary well on this case s***ting on an oppressed group like the lgbtq+ caricature in that meme which is funny cause the use of other ethnic communists to s*** on em, when for example the filipino maoists were the first one to conduct a gay marriage in asia.

of course the only way to win these online discourse is to not participate in them cause i rarely ever see s*** like this mattering in real life organizing.

What's the book?

monthlyreview.org/2021/07/01/mr-073-03-2021-07_0
Talks about socialist transition leading up to present period. China trade war, whether china is imperailist or not.. Lots of great data in here