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Upvoted the article because the anti-imperialist struggle is class struggle on a global scale. That seems to be the primary point insofar as I understand it. I agree with that.

Here is not the place to go into amateur assessments of economic issue (maybe mine should never be shared.) There were a couple of other items that I didn't understand. Putin's "harmonic multipolar world" stands out as puzzling. The world was multipolar in 1913. There were many poles, London, Paris, Berlin, Tsarskoye Selo, DC, Tokyo. That was not harmonic. It was Kautsky who had a vision of such a harmonic world, called ultraimperialism. But we got ultraimperialism after WWII and it's horrifying reality served only to mercilessly convict Kautsky as a revisionist renegade, in my opinion. I don't know how to see Putin as the conductor of the great symphony of world brotherhood.

A more subtle perplexity perhaps lies in the notion of "taihe." All great efforts by human beings to fulfill their potential leads in life to a rational kernel in the best of their world-views. Class struggle, briefly speaking, secreted this rational kernel in Confucianism. This rational kernel can and must be expropriated, so to speak. The past is always with us, it can only be abolished in the abstract. We can only be liberated from the nightmare by prolonged concrete reworking, with the illusory form discarded when it fails the test of experience. Even more to the point, such emancipation will inevitably take Chinese forms, otherwise it will not be actually rational. Chinese history has to be both continuous and ruptured. (Duh! Or is that too slangy?)

The problem I don't understand is how that can be transferred in any but an empty, abstract, almost purely verbal way to world affairs? Aside from the obvious folly of dogmatically trying to copy a Chinese model (which the CPC explicitly rejects as I understand it,) there are the concrete steps in replacing the global order, with specific problems in geopolitics, world economy, collective security. I am all at sea as to how to apply multipolarity in such general terms, however admirable and necessary and feasible the ultimate goal is.

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