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Ersteres ist sicher der Fall. Das "gelbe Zeitalter" ist nur eine Frage der Zeit. Nicht weil sie das bessere System haben. Sie haben eine charmante Mischung aus 1,4 Mrd. Menschen und Momentum. Das halten wir nicht auf. Aber auch dort wird mit steigendem Wohlstand der Drang nach Freiheit größer werden. Ich sehe unsere Modell nicht am Ende. Das Ding ist noch nicht ausgefochten

Kennst Du und was hälst Du denn von Michael Hudsons grundsätzlichen Unterscheidungen zwischen Industriekapitalismus (China) und Finanzkapitalismus (USA) zur Erklärung des chinesischen und amerikanischen Wirtschaftsmodells, das China wiederum in ihrem eigenem Selbstverständnis bei sich als "sozialistische Marktwirtschaft" in Abgrenzung zu einer zentralen Planwirtschaft (frühere UDSSR) auffasst.

“The decline of the West is not necessary or historically inevitable. It is the result of choosing policies dictated by its rentier interests. … The threat posed to society by rentier interests is the great challenge of every nation today: whether its government can restrict the dynamics of finance capitalism and prevent an oligarchy from dominating the state and enriching itself by imposing austerity on labor and industry. So far, the West has not risen to this challenge.”

“The book explains why the New Cold War’s U.S.-China conflict cannot simply be regarded as market competition between two industrial rivals. It is a broader conflict between different political economic systems – not only between capitalism and socialism as such, but between the logic of an industrial economy and that of a financialized rentier economy increasingly dependent on foreign subsidy and exploitation as its own domestic economy shrivels.

“Professor Hudson endeavors to revive classical political economy in order to reverse the neoclassical counter-revolution. … The book explains why the U.S. and other Western economies have lost their former momentum: A narrow rentier class has gained control and become the new central planner, using its power to drain income from increasingly indebted and high-cost labor and industry. The American disease of de-industrialization has resulted from the costs of industrial production being inflated by the economic rents extracted by this class under the system of financialized monopoly capitalism that now prevails throughout the West.”

https://michael-hudson.com/2022/05/t...-civilization/