From Philosophical Research
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- Cold War (1945-1991)
- Cold War -> sometimes this is blue, sometimes it's brown.
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- The Cold War never ended / The Cold War period was part of a larger completely continuous period of cold war -> component claim. like, really, when did it end? when did the whole practice of trying to destroy the Second World and every new workers' state stop? when Reagan said something to the effect that Communism couldn't be allowed to win, do you think he meant for a few years or do you think he meant forever? if he meant forever, as he probably did, then the Cold War is still going.
- Cold wars are about ethnicity / The Cold War was never about workers / Starting the Cold War was never precisely about destroying workers; it was about destroying every single Soviet individual allied with or connected to a Communist party, and this is why Deng Xiaoping Thought has been the only way to win the continuing global Cold War that never actually ended / The Cold War was about destroying all physical nation-state objects which are not the United States, including China, Russia, or a hypothetical poly-communist workers' state covering half the world -> this sounds very "postcolonial theory" on the surface but I have a different explanation for it than you'd think. I don't take this position because anybody is "racist" — even as that's quite fair to say. I take this position because Deng Xiaoping Thought is still going. the fact that this strange at-least-slightly-wrong Marxism is so popular means something is very wrong with this timeline; the major processes of history must not be what we think they are for this to be the most obvious solution. also? the fact that it's so popular, it gives First World countries exactly what they want, and yet First World countries still hate it. if anything First World countries said against Marxism had been true and not just cover-up lies they would have thrown in the towel once Deng Xiaoping Thought was created, but you see people talking about China's "dishonest" tactics for actually having businesses or the supposed risks of letting Chinese businesses extend into the United States and it's really like they don't want China to have businesses, or by any reasonable definition, have capitalism. they want neocolonialism but China having capitalism and its own national government and unaccountable business-governments is scary. we can't conclude that Deng Xiaoping Thought exists primarily to benefit capitalists, not in an age when it benefits China and all its ethnicities even existing. what this means for actual Leninists is very unclear. the only thing that is clear is that part of the definition of an effective Marxism is winning the forever cold war. the world is beyond the time of simple atomic revolution or permanent revolution, and has entered a contradiction of infinite revolution versus infinite counterrevolution. and this has happened because nobody realized that models of society could be molecularized, and Liberal capitalism is molecularized, and what any successful theory has to do is actively regenerate populations and accommodate population growth and correctly plan and arrange populations as they grow rather than in advance. China planning its country 100 years in advance could actually be wrong. and that's a little terrifying. because whenever individuals make decisions there's always missing information and we never necessarily know how to make every individual make decisions correctly. but in one sense we kind of utterly have to for any country or would-be workers' revolution to survive forever cold war.
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