The rise and decline of great powers

[The Dharma Bum]

Ha ha nationalistic ranting aside the point is, Spider, that the capital for it all was produced by collective human action, via the primeval accumulation of capital. Contrary to US cultural beliefs this capital was not produced by the the action of a few super-productive super-smart pilgrims who were then fairly remunerated for their services by making them billionaires and putting them in control of society. The individuals that belong to this parasitic class merely represent people who are taking advantage of their social circumstances to exploit the rest of humanity.

The ultimate point all that is to illustrate that this is all highly unethical and expansion of our mode of production is still mowing down indigenous populations in the manner of the European genocide in North America around the world to this day.

But I know you are more concerned with shouting about how the US is #1 superpower.

[The Dharma Bum]

"rammed home" by the mighty response to the Boxer Rebellion. pffft

That was like 10 European countries and the purpose was to carve an already broken China up into colonies.

[Spider]

[Spider]

[eynon81]

[broken robot]

[Esin]

[broken robot]

Yeah, wish I knew more about China. It's honestly a massive country so don't know where to begin, but from what I've gleaned a predominantly peasant population migrating to cheap jobs + expanding manufacturing base in cheap goods + construction boom and potential real estate bubble + opacity of the politbureau and overall lack of legal infrastructure mean it's got a long ways to go...