It's 2025. We are now closer to 2050 than 2000. What has the left achieved this century? As far as I can tell the Western left has achieved nothing. Neoliberalism continues to get worse. It has successfully created a fake opposition on the right. You can call it populism, nativism, racism, MAGA et cetera, but it is really just a controlled opposition that does whatever capitalists want. In the East we see China. China has become the world's largest car manufacturer in the last five years. This change happened post-COVID and with heavy tariffs from the West. China has also lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty within its own borders and it has become the number one trading partner of most of the word's nations, including most American nations.
These developments concern me because the Western left won't quit. We won't admit ideological defeat, learn from China's facts, and progress towards a post-neoliberalism that is not fascist. Instead, we continue to indulge "non-hierarchical" fantasies that have failed completely. I think China has reeducated us and has taught us their approach is the most correct approach to post-capitalism. There isn't actually another correct way to do socialism, and the more time we waste the closer we come to American fascism and ecological collapse.