China decided to play ball with the slave economy because it makes scads of money. If they were interested in pushing fucking state communism and raising the quality of living perhaps this was the wrong move. I suppose the counterargument would be that letting the west export its manufacturing sector somewhere else would have been a missed opportunity, but perhaps (and I say this as an American) the better move ideologically would have been not to engage with manufactory colonialism for a quick buck. Now we have Foxcon. They might have aligned with communist or at least sympathetic governments around the world for the project of I dunno stonewalling western oligarchs and not participating in the capitalist economic system. Insane, radical, anti-Party thought I know, I’m sorry. Just thinking out loud here.

I dunno guys. Trump is talking about starting WW3 pretty openly. Its probably a distraction but we don’t get the benefit of ignoring an incoming president literally threatening war with our allies.

Interesting, thank you for the reply. I am not a hacker nor a gnostic but I have a slight fascination with the latter. But on hacking: while there’s merit to your position that hacker culture is reactionary I have to ask what do you think of hacker collectives like the one that leaked Project 2025 or other noble computer nerd activities? It seems to me like a hacker is exercizing another avenue of power over her world like jumping or singing. Thinking the online world is seperate and intangible from our non-online experience seems to be making the mistake of dualism in upholding one sphere of reality over the other/s.

hacker culture is intrinsically gnostic and reactionary

Do you nind elaborating a bit?