Liu Cixin’s the Three-Body Problem book trilogy is one of the world’s bestselling Chinese sci-fi series, being read and endorsed by figures such as George R.R. Martin and Barack Obama. In Chinese public debates, however, critics highlight the series’ social Darwinist, misogynistic, and totalitarian tendencies, raising concerns about how the trilogy has been used by […]
I don't really agree with this and totally fucking love these books. However, it is a fairly interesting essay.
real world colonial regimes will do so for purely ideological reasons
Actually we shouldn't forget that the prime motivator for colonialism is, in reality, simply also material conditions. Economic growth and subjugation is the true motivator for colonialism on a mass scale, these superstructural concepts used to justify would vanish quickly if there was no longer the incentive for infinite growth
Yes, however, they colonized because their economies would crash which would mean toppling the economic order which helped keep those on top, on top. So for them the tendency for their economy to explode without colonial extraction could be seen as akin to a world ending disaster like the destruction of their planet or tsunamis wiping out Europe.
Actually we shouldn't forget that the prime motivator for colonialism is, in reality, simply also material conditions. Economic growth and subjugation is the true motivator for colonialism on a mass scale, these superstructural concepts used to justify would vanish quickly if there was no longer the incentive for infinite growth
this is a better way of making my point
You have a point. But also real world Europeans weren't colonizing under the belief that Tsunamis would inevitably drown all of Europe or something.
Yes, however, they colonized because their economies would crash which would mean toppling the economic order which helped keep those on top, on top. So for them the tendency for their economy to explode without colonial extraction could be seen as akin to a world ending disaster like the destruction of their planet or tsunamis wiping out Europe.