tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post701796331693344512..comments2024-03-29T09:09:46.823+02:00Comments on A Political Refugee From The Global Village : Robert Kaplan on the ChineseUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-41415072519516718492019-10-13T15:00:59.714+03:002019-10-13T15:00:59.714+03:00Chairman Deng was the greatest man who ever lived,...Chairman Deng was the greatest man who ever lived, measured in how much good he did. Though, if only Chiang Kai‐shek and the Nationalists had won the civil war, how much happier a place China and the world would be.Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-35528859243962529062019-10-13T14:48:20.279+03:002019-10-13T14:48:20.279+03:00I agree with you though I wouldn't call myself...I agree with you though I wouldn't call myself a nationalist. I'd call myself a romantic Tory, perhaps a Tory anarchist, a conservative and an imperialist. I am close to being a libertarian but no longer mistaken for or mistake myself for a classical liberal. They are exemplified by the Economist, the FT and globalists and are what Evelyn Waugh makes Guy Crouchback say to himself about the Nazi-Communist Non-Aggression Pact: 'The enemy at last was plain in view, huge and hateful, ... It was the Modern Age in arms.' <br /><br />I am with Waugh and against Hitler, Stalin and modernity.Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-5957622937243946872019-10-13T02:22:49.421+03:002019-10-13T02:22:49.421+03:00China experienced the Cultural Revolution, a destr...China experienced the Cultural Revolution, a destructive youth cult egged on by the old. Maybe it learned something. carolinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01134221554348743714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-45991699246809647592019-10-12T16:17:42.655+03:002019-10-12T16:17:42.655+03:00Culture produces politics and economics, not as Ma...<em>Culture produces politics and economics, not as Marx thought the other way around.</em><br /><br />I think I'd have to agree with that.<br /><br />It's actually one of the things that made Mao a heretic - he also seemed to believe in the primacy of culture. Orthodox Marxists were horrified. Which is probably why Marxism lost. Of course Maoism lost as well, because Mao lost the culture war in China.<br /><br />The problem is that globalists understand the primacy of culture all too clearly - they first took control of the culture and everything else followed. The fact that globalism was the ideology of capitalism and by the postwar period capitalism controlled the culture through its control of the media certainly helped.<br /><br />The problem for nationalists is that they have zero cultural power. Globalism has the entire weight of American cultural power behind it.dfordoomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02306293859869179118noreply@blogger.com