[lbo-talk] Aspect of India's Econ Report:TheRealStateofIndia'sEconomy

[Chris Doss]

I guess my point was that China isn't really a nation-state. China is _already_ something like the EU. Actually in a sense I think the formation of the EU represents Europe becoming more like China and Russia (which is several times the size of the EU and contains more administrative districts than there are countries in Europe. You can fit Western Europe into a large Russian administrative district. Moscow Oblast is about the size of France. Come to think of it I think Russia's surface area is about the same as that of the Moon.).

 
I think China's concern is avoiding collapse, as is usually with states of that sort, not trying to merge into something larger. Hmmm, maybe this has something to do with why China and Russia have always been despotisms...

Dennis Redmond <dredmond at efn.org> wrote:
> China, like India and Russia, is _already_ a
> multinational state.

True, but I'm not talking about multiculturalism within nation-states, I'm
referring to the multinational economic and political structures outside
of the 19th century nation-state and 20th century national security state
alike.

It's not just a question of defining structures, it's a question of
creating a utopian vision for the future -- a multinational socialism, to
counter the capitalism of the multinationals.

-- DRR
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