The comparison sounds like a paradox. Who does not know that Europe is advanced and Asia backward? But the words taken for this title contain a bitter truth.
In civilised and advanced Europe, with its highly developed machine industry, its rich, multiform culture and its constitutions, a point in history has been reached when the commanding bourgeoisie, fearing the growth and increasing strength of the proletariat, comes out in support of every thing backward, moribund and medieval. The bourgeoisie is hying out its last days, and is joining with all obsolete and obsolescent forces in an attempt to preserve tottering wage-slavery.
Advanced Europe is commanded by a bourgeoisie which supports everything that is backward. The Europe of our day is advanced not thanks to, but in spite of, the bourgeoisie, for it is only the proletariat that is adding to the million-strong army of fighters for a better future. It alone preserves and spreads implacable enmity towards backwardness, savagery, privilege, slavery and the humiliation of man by man.
In “advanced” Europe, the sole advanced class is the proletariat. As for the living bourgeoisie, it is prepared to go to any length of savagery, brutality and crime in order to uphold dying capitalist slavery.
And a more striking example of this decay of the entire European bourgeoisie can scarcely be cited than the support it is lending to reaction in Asia in furtherance of the selfish aims of the financial manipulators and capitalist swindlers.
Everywhere in Asia a mighty democratic movement is growing, spreading and gaining in strength. The bourgeoisie there is as yet siding with the people against reaction. Hundreds of millions of people are awakening to life, light and freedom. What delight this world movement is arousing in the hearts of all class-conscious workers, who know that the path to collectivism lies through democracy! What sympathy for young Asia imbues all honest democrats!
And “advanced” Europe? It is plundering China and helping the foes of democracy, the foes of freedom in China!
Here is a simple but instructive little calculation. A new Chinese loan has been concluded against Chinese democracy: “Europe” is for Yuan Shikai, who is preparing a military dictatorship. Why does it support him? Because it is good business. The loan has been concluded for about 250,000,000 rubles, at the rate of 84 to a 100. That means that the bourgeois of “Europe” will pay the Chinese 210,000,000 rubles, but will take from the public 225,000,000 rubles. There you have at one stroke—a clear profit of fifteen million rubles in a few weeks! It really is a “clear” profit, isn’t it?
What if the Chinese people do not recognise the loan? China, after all, is a republic, and the majority in parliament are against the loan.
Oh, then “advanced” Europe will raise a cry about “civilisation”, “order”, “culture” and “fatherland”! It will set the guns in motion and, in alliance with Yuan Shikai, that adventurer, traitor and friend of reaction, crush a republic in “backward” Asia.
All the commanders of Europe, all the European bourgeoisie are in alliance with all the forces of reaction and medievalism in China.
But all young Asia, that is, the hundreds of millions of Asian working people, has a reliable ally in the proletariat of all civilised countries. No force on earth can prevent its victory, which will liberate both the peoples of Europe and the peoples of Asia.
orientalism but woke
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>In civilised and advanced Europe, with its highly developed machine industry
Western Europe didn't catch up to China in terms of technological development until the Age of Discovery, around the 16th century or so. China developed block printing and magnetic compasses and gunpowder and all kinds of other shit hundreds of years before Europeans did. Western Europeans were in the Dark Ages smearing shit on their faces while Arabs were developing our entire language of mathematics as we understand it today. Human progress around the world is not a totem pole, it is more like an endless race at a dog track and sometimes one dog is in the lead and sometimes it's another dog.
>>2505079>rabs were developing our entire language of mathematics as we understand it today.Thought that was the indians?
>>2505079>Arabs were developing our entire language of mathematics as we understand it todayThis is an exaggeration. While the Arabs did contribute to mathematics (geometry in particular) our current way of writing and doing math was actually developed by Descartes.
>>2505087I meant more algebra and algorithms, but yes the Indians did develop the predecessor to our positional decimal numeral system and Arabs adopted it as their own version which spread all over the world by way of the expanding Muslim caliphates and is the numeral system we use today.
>>2505069>mge brotherNoice. Mge brothers and mge scary stories are top tier russian cultural exports.
>>2505130>>2505087Libs in recent times have greatly exaggerated the 'islamic golden age'. While the Arabs did contribute, they make it sound now like Europeans were dumb barbarians and Arabs figured everything out like mega-geniuses. Funny how they just inverted the previous narrative of 'europeans are divine geniuses and Arabs are barbaric warrior-tribes'.
Even in the old days, there was a lot of circulation of information. In ancient times (before 500AD), most (not all) of the mathematical advances were in Greece, Rome, and India. In the 'classical' age (500AD-1300AD), the Arabs surged on the stage, with India still up there. As from 1300, India gradually fell far behind, Arabs stagnated and fell, while Europe surged forward. After the enlightenment, Europe was number 1. As from the Industrial Revolution, it was not even comparable anymore, Europe achieved unprecedented domination. To the point where one could only focus on Europe and disregard any insignificant Mathematical and scientific work produced elsewhere.
Parallel to that, you had China, who also came up with much mathematical development in the ancient and classical age. But I consider them 'parallel' as there was lesser cross-pollination with the Indians, Arabs, Europeans because of the great distance between them.
>>2505148Dummy, the narrative is that arabs just preserved the ancient texts and knowledge and maybe did come up with something.
>>2505148>Even in the old days, there was a lot of circulation of informationYes. The thing that drives me insane about libs and fascists alike is that they have a very silo'd view of history, iykwim, where every country or group is off doing it's own thing independent of others with little crossover. In reality though we know travel has happened across the mediterranean forever, we know trade between the indian-arabic geographic blocs have existed for an also staggering amount of time.
These theories western historians come up with are all just racism and nation-building with post-hoc mythmaking to justify it.
>>2505148>In ancient times (before 500AD), most (not all) of the mathematical advances were in Greece, Rome, and India.And then before the Greeks forged their huge global empire under Alexander the Great they were just a bunch of primitive savages while huge empires from the Middle East/Africa were conquering the world and had the most technologically advanced societies at the time. You try to figure out who did it first and you just end up going all the way back to the first humans in Africa.
Yeah but what about communism?