China’s gonna be a phenomenal world leader.
when youre turnt up on dialectical materialism
When you hit 200 hours in Victoria 3.
I could imagine China using policy demands (similar to what the IMF does, but not evil) in exchange for financing, economic development, but IDK if turning Afghanistan into 18th century England will do much good.
I could imagine China using policy demands, similar to what the IMF does, still evil. That’s basically what the Belt and Road initiative is.
OH NO THE EVIL BBELT N ROAD THEY’RE BUILDING EVIL INFRASTRUCTURE WITH EVIL LOANS
China literally straight up forgives entire nation’s debts and has done so multiple times. Weird form of debt slavery, freeing your debt slaves, and not something the IMF has ever done.
The IMF doesn’t stop until it has complete influence over monetary policy and has forced neoliberal doctrine on a country, how the fuck you could ever think that’s similar to the belt and road is beyond me. Absolutely brainwashed
this thread is like the dengist version of reform or revolution
I much prefer the western strategy where we bomb the shit out of them until they realize how superior our western valuestm are.
Women’s computer camp in the wealthiest corner of the capital.
Western armed warlords across the rural bulk of the nation.
Wagging my finger at the Taliban for hating women because my warlords are losing.
For a sec I thought you were just talking about the US with the first two lines lol.
MY favorite western strategy to instill Western Values™ is to intentionally seek out the most right-wing weirdos in the country, go out of our way to convince them that women’s rights is a Communist plot to lead them to Satan, and supply them with stinger missiles
I don’t consider it a coincidence in the slightest that women’s liberation kicked into high gear with women’s employment and education opportunities. Anything else strikes me as cart before the horse.
“Cart before the horse”, Christ English is so stupidly polite. I need more vulgarity in phrases, how about “od dupy strony”? “From the ass’ side”. There you go! Seriously Polish needs to spread it’s flexible vulgarity all over the world for a better change.
Education, social/economic independence, and industrial labor demands definitely produced the conditions for a feminist movement.
But mass media, mass surveillance, and the industrialization of policing also inhibited and restrained women’s movements.
So…
“howdy, what’s going on in this thread?”This is like accelerationism but for creating capitalism
I get the point. Now, all my aprons come from Pakistan, how are women’s rights doing there? Or India? Or Bangladesh?
“Better than before women were employed in factories”, OK fine. But this comment should be indistinguishable from r/neoliberal if that place weren’t nazis in denial
But think of the productive forces
Its good to be sceptical, but just because one person tells a lie, doesn’t make that statement universally a lie.
Nazi neolibs are not speaking in good faith.
women were involved in the industrial workforce in the west from the beginning, and three waves of feminism were still needed - the work not even over after that. So I don’t really know if i agree with this take.
Did a single women’s liberatory movement succeed before development of the industrial capacity and the incentive capital provides to the national bourgeoisie to see things change?
We must prioritise the prerequisites. Certain material conditions are a necessity to meet before those movements can see success.
EDIT: The phrasing is a bit racist in this part of the manifesto but still relevant:
The rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilisation.
Did a single women’s liberatory movement succeed before development of the industrial capacity and the incentive capital provides to the national bourgeoisie to see things change?
I finished Graeber’s “History of Everything” not too long ago, and want to say this gets touched on, and the answer is ‘yes.’
That said, I gave my copy to my dad and would need to go page through it to cite that, so I very well may be wrong. Plus, it would have been centuries ago anyways, so not sure it’s really relevant to your initial question.
Second this. The situation of Women in the 19th century is very deeply tied to the whole “global European empire of terror” and doesn’t necessarily reflect conditions in other cultures at other times.
There seems to be a lot of active socialists in my part of the country and historic support for women’s and queer rights, I wonder if it has to do with knowledge of indigenous cultures from my region? Several tribes active here had a matriarchal governance structure, they would have rotating councils of women meet to discuss issues and distribution of resources in what could be described as a socialist system. Nearly all political knowledge in the west is rooted in white imperialist ideologies, my heart aches thinking where we could be today if egalitarian or socialist tribes were allowed to flourish.
That said, I gave my copy to my dad and would need to go page through it to cite that, so I very well may be wrong. Plus, it would have been centuries ago anyways, so not sure it’s really relevant to your initial question.
I’d be quite interested in what existing power these women had in order to force whatever concessions they achieved. I am betting on it being a quite different scenario, but relying on certain conditions that these women today do not have.
I’m convinced that a major aspect of the property relationship under capital here is that it almost entirely traps women with no means of helping themselves. Getting them more means will drastically alter their ability to pursue their own movements.
I’m not arguing against what the poster in the image is suggesting doing, I just think they’re too hopeful. I’m making the point that the process they describe will not in and of itself result in “women’s liberation” in Afghanistan.
Fair. There are several steps that follow but some must occur before others out of necessity.
even the most barbarian, nations into civilisation.
counterpoint: its not racist if you call the imperialist nations the barbaric ones
That feels like saying “yeah, but unions existed in 1920, so I don’t think I agree that unions were able to win any labor rights.” The poster is proposing a process that will initiate gains in womens rights that can’t be as easily reversed as gains from an external military imposition, not automatic guarantee of immediate equality.
unions are involved with actively fighting for workers’ rights so I don’t really think that’s a fair comparison. A more apt comparison would be saying a labor shortage will result in increased workers’ rights. The labor shortage in and of itself is not what will give the workers permanent gains, but it puts the workers and unions on the footing necessary to force those concessions from the capitalists.
Similar here, the process the poster is describing will only result in more women in the workforce, but not in and of itself result in “women’s liberation” in Afghanistan - that involves a political struggle.
The point of women joining the workforce is so they can then withhold their labor. This is what I understood to be the point of the Chinese comments. Just because they didn’t explicitly spell it out doesn’t mean that’s not what they had in mind. But the basic message is correct. Women have to be part of the workforce in order to even have political leverage.
Idk if Bangladeshi women are very liberated. (obviously better than Afghanistan but still)
there still needs to be a transition from capitalism.
He put it very vulgarly but that’s more or less a point I’ve read from other marxists, that proletarianization MAY bring about mass politics
This is essentially true even if they didn’t explicitly spell out political struggle that women would have to engage in. Actually existing feudalism hasn’t existed anywhere for decades. All that shit about Afghani tribes living in a premodern society is just racism. Afghanistan, like most of the world, has a capitalist economy even if you want to nitpick that the superstructure still has feudal remnants. I mean, the UK still has feudal remnants in its superstructure through their inbred German royals, but no one calls the UK some quaint society that hasn’t fully embraced modernity.
And in a capitalist economy, it shouldn’t be controversial to say that the prerequisite for workers obtaining political power is for them to join the formal economy, where they can then withhold their labor as workers through worker strikes. Stuff like elevating the lumpenproletariat as the key revolutionary subject makes more sense if we’re talking about internal colonies/fourth world where the internally colonized are forcefully denied employment within the formal economy or a (neo)colonial situation where most workers of the formal economy are clerical workers working with the (neo)colonial government in sucking the country dry, but this obviously isn’t the case for Afghanistan. Worker strikes imply workers who are part of the formal economy. It’s one more tool Afghani women can use to fight for women’s rights and dismantle the patriarchy. I’m not sure what’s wrong with this or how this is “un-Marxist.”
no one calls the UK some quaint society that hasn’t fully embraced modernity.
Actually no, China needs to wage holy war on the Taliban and force them all the adopt the version of Islam that Hui people have. Then they’ll have female imams and from there powerful female imams will lead the revolutionary vanguard for women’s rights.
Mixed feelings on foreign capital investment. I’d want to see the economic proposals laid out first before coming to any conclusions.
Turn 👏 feudal serf👏 women 👏 into 👏 sweatshop 👏 workers
Yes, that’s what China did. They also used media control to blanket the nation in antisexist messages from the moment the PRC was established, but chattel marriage customs only really began to break down in areas where factory work was available - the wage work allowed women to be financially independent from their clans for the first time. Even establishing dictatorship of the proletariat doesn’t mean immediate freedom from the harsh contradictions of being a developing country.
no that’s not what China did. simply putting women in textile mills is what the british did, and it took a fucking century to get the vote.
