I think what I meant was more that, if China has a stronger trade relationship with Canada, it would incentivize China to support Canada and become complicit in its Imperialist policies.
There isn’t a clean line. The soviet union tried isolation; it failed. The reform in China was to use capital mechanisms under a DOTP but with the understanding with the benefit of de-isolation you will be trading with those complicit in ongoing mass murder. That lack of “purity” is what separates survival from idealist “win”. China is already “complicit” from the perspective of paper-socialists who never had a successful revolution in their own lands. Losurdo’s take on Western Marxism is well worth a read.
I think what I meant was more that, if China has a stronger trade relationship with Canada, it would incentivize China to support Canada and become complicit in its Imperialist policies.
There isn’t a clean line. The soviet union tried isolation; it failed. The reform in China was to use capital mechanisms under a DOTP but with the understanding with the benefit of de-isolation you will be trading with those complicit in ongoing mass murder. That lack of “purity” is what separates survival from idealist “win”. China is already “complicit” from the perspective of paper-socialists who never had a successful revolution in their own lands. Losurdo’s take on Western Marxism is well worth a read.
I’ll have to do some thinking on this. Thanks for taking the time to respond constructively!
🫡 (no worries; we are all learning, myself included)