Did marx ever even discuss china beyond brushing it off as asiatic despotism?
>>18652834That image implies first world is just all the White countries, second world is Asians, and third world is all else. Lol.
>>18652834Your graph is wrong. The first world is defined by control of technology and IP not food. Japan barely grows any food and has no resources, while Russia is a net food exporter and oil superpower. Which one is first world and which one is third world?
>>18652843The question is how does one third world shithole build skyscrapers and the other huts if they're both simply export economies. Is it the chokehold of things like oil? Should countries like, say bolivia, just use price wars to monopolize their exclusive good of cocaine and then let the infinite money well drip down to the peasants? Why doesn't say nigeria attempt to lean on being the sole cocoa exporter nation of the world and then strangle any other competitors via price war, given actually powerfull nations like the US won't throw a tantrum over it?
>>18652834Any geopolitical analysis that places the Arab gulf states (minus Iraq) as "third world" should be immediately discarded.
>>18652859Lol
>>18652853Every third world shithole today has skyscrapers. What they lack is clean drinking water, this includes Russia. 1/5 of Russian households don't have toilets.
By the time Marx died China was still a feudal empire, so no, he didn't really consider them special. God, this board is so fucking dumb.
>>18652834There's a series of articles he wrote about China in the 1850s on marxists.org. Mostly about trade and the Second Opium War. He was very negative towards British policy. He also wrote an article about the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which he also looked at negatively.>From the start, the movement possessed primarily a religious character; but this it had in common with all Oriental movements. The immediate causes for the emergence of the movement were close at hand: European intervention, Opium Wars, consequently a shattering of the existing government, the outflow of silver into foreign lands, disturbances of the economic balance through import of foreign goods, etc. Paradoxically, it seems to me, opium acted as a stimulant, not as a tranquilizer. What is original in this Chinese revolution are only its bearers. They are not conscious of any task, except the change of dynasty. They have no slogans. They are an even greater scourge to the population than the old rulers. It seems that their vocation is nothing else than to set against the conservative disintegration [of China], its destruction, in grotesque horrifying form, without any seeds for a renaissance.
>>18652834He only rarely discusses China, never in much depth. And the Asiatic mode of production was created to explain India.>>18652913Rewarmed Ukrainian intelligence talking points from 2015. Now we just need a Russian rooster and this will be a productive discussion.
>>18653244Sorry Russia isn't first world despite having 300 years to do so.
>>18652834>cut off food supply>Brazil
>>18653603What the fuck does brazil need the west for then
>>18652834euro-america threatens to bomb the third world if they don't stay in line
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>>18653675Whatever, but definitely not food
>>18652834Turd worlders don't produce shit other than cheap slave labor. The west, japan, korea, china, and the gcc are the only ones who really matter.
>>18653680I thought we exported more food than Thailand.
>>18653675Technology, Luxury goods.>>18653508You are forgiven!
