Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "CNN"
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Too many people leap to the dopey assumption that "The Chinese are taking over the world."
The opposite is the truth: China is succeeding by adopting much of what is best of the west. They've adopted the British Industrial Revolution. 19th-Century German applied science, and a few dribs and drabs of Anglo-German Marxism -- Hegelian hooey married to billiard-ball physics and the best of Victorian-age charitable social policy. They tried Leninism for a while but it was crushed in blood by Chiang Kai-Shek in 1929 and its remnants ground into the mud by Stalin over the succeeding generation.
One might have thought that the reforms of Deng Xiao-Ping would have some relation t the thought of the English industrialist Freidrich Engels. This didn't happen, because Engels never stirred any knowledge he might have gained in his factories into his politics. I think he has only made two contributions to world history, buying Karl Marx a few years' groceries and writing some hilariously self-parodic sections of The Communist Manifesto, in which the manifesto denounces bourgeois prigs exactly like, wait for it, Freidrich Engels.
The current main program of China is Xi Jin-Ping thought, essentially Western supply-chain management writ large. Very large.
This he may have learned during his stay in Kansas in which case it would be a curious mix of political strains: the political economy of the American Midwest is pretty much Stalinism, "socialism plus electricity equals communism," moderated by the Shredded Wheat practicality of Vice-President Henry Wallace, a stumble-bum Red but to hi credit a sound agronomist. It would make perfect sense if America's "Red States" had been given in honour of Wallace's love affair (at a safe distance) with Stalinism, but the seems not to have happened. Neither are they called red because of their budgets, always in deficit and bailed out by Washington.
Perhaps it's because so many of their politicians are so perennially apoplectic from jumping up and down denouncing the socialism and the Washington on which they are so totally dependent.
But China didn't export all this red stuff to us. It crossed the Pacific from America to China, and Eurasia via the Trans-Siberian Railroad, but mostly from Marx in the British Museum.
They aren't going to conquer us because we have already conquered them. What happens next is, the Trump interlude fades into the mists, and sensible people get on with the Great Mixing.
Here's the History:
The Gunpowder Years: 1400 to 1945, with raggedy edges at both ends. Europe conquers the world, including a number of cultures superior to its own, through the wanton use of gunpowder.
The European War: 1908 to 1998, from the North African Naval Crisis through the rise and then collapse of Imperialism, Fascism, and Marxism. Huge death resulting in developing peace.
The Great Mixing: 1868 to 2150, from the Black Ships introducing America to Japan (already acclimatizing itself to Holland, Korea, and Britain) through the admixture of China and America, Adam Smith plus Buddha, etc. etc.
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Léon ,
The fake Christians still delivered 62% of the white vote for the anti-Constitutional, lookin' fer a chile-bride, half-wit.
Trump is not America's problem: America's problem is an electorate in which 37% or so of the people are vindictive, reactionary, often racist, haters. They worship a Christ dead and bleeding, not a Jesus alive and teaching. They believe they are saved and you are't but you need to be for some reason. This is a medieval, authoritarian, patriarchal and wicked set of beliefs. It is the real harm, and Trump is just a small bit of the result.
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