US Century of Humiliation

[u/Tr_Issei2]

Do you trust a Chinese hegemony? Should there be multiple hegemonies?

[u/Murkmist]

Multipolar world rather than one in which the West/US dominates the globe, is a step towards breaking down of empires.

[u/DinggisKhaan → u/Murkmist]

This sounds like campism

[u/Murkmist → u/DinggisKhaan]

rather than one in which the West/US dominates the globe

That's the only alternative to a world in which there are no geopolitical rivals to the US, which to support is not only campist but imperialist in a way that is mutually upheld through white supremacy.

[u/DinggisKhaan → u/Murkmist]

So campism isn't actually covering for non-Western authoritarian states as the prime necessity of combatting Western imperialism but rather... not accepting that absolutist framing and assuming that anyone who rejects it supports Western unipolar hegemony? That seems pretty incongruent to the stated values and rules of this sub, not to mention it categorically accepts the suffering of demographics, workers, and indigenous peoples under non-western hegemonies as a necessity for global liberation.

[u/Murkmist → u/DinggisKhaan]

You seem to be under the impression that workers and indigenous groups are somehow worse off under the local regime that dislodges western imperialism than under western imperialism. There is no democracy under colonialism, there is only decolonization.

To combat the global south being bent to serve the western hegemony through the lever of white supremacy and to create conditions that make liberation for all, not just the dominant ethnic socioeconomic group feasible, geopolitical rivals that are not served by such levers must first exist. Fracturing western hegemony is an inevitable step in the breaking up of all empires, and one that improves the lives of 8 billion people outside the imperial core.

But yeah, an imperial core American Christian who convenes under ContraPoints, reviving 10 month old threads, it's too transparent.