Misreading of Kautsky IMHO look where the nations which did WWI are now - the declining NATO+ bloc, Japan, Russia (lost its colonies, of course). IMHO Lenin would probably have the same analysis of neocolonialism and monetary imperialism (superimperialism) as those who lived to see it emerge??? If you teleported him (it would be so cool to do this btw let's pause on this)???
The decline is making us more violent, lawfare coups, proxy wars, nuclear brinkmanship, etcetera, because we can see the funding we use for the interventions to secure the funding for the interventions we use to [...] is at risk of collapsing.
The economies so crudely termed "the jungle" by Borrel aren't built off neocolonialism because they are on the receiving end, and their development is destroying their status as colonies.
The us striving for unipolarity has tremendously increased regional conflicts and internal anticommunist purges. I'm no economist but regional blocs that are all invested in each other's currencies seem more likely to deal with things using diplomacy.
The anticommunist reaction isn't going anywhere but it looks like a tremendous opportunity to me and I don't think many people read Kautsky's silly little letters but us.
Oh don't worry I didn't think you were lauding Kautsky. Or even saying a lot of people still do. I've seen the comparison of superimperialism to ultraimperialism before and it seems skin-deep to me. People implying everything is going to be all sunshine and roses now that the US will have less than total impunity to curb stomp people and send in the goons are going way too far but I see a lot (AND I MEAN A LOT) more skeptics because this is somewhat unknown territory.
You know what we need? Popular youtube video essayists to explain dependency theory and world systems theory. Too many goddamn books for me. (Working on it tho)
EDIT: Ah I see this is about Chinese and Russian imperialism and not about the undeath of neoliberalism RIP. It's always some random blog with a guy denouncing "Marcyism, campism, Red-brown alliance, multipolar chauvinism" just made up shit I'm done. I'm going to start posting in Covert Action Magazine or something. I need industrial strength posting warfare. This site is gonna feel artillery. Can't believe people still take this kind of Alexander Reid-Ross-ass writing seriously.