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The MIC bourgeoisie wants war with China to make money and also to stop China from strengthening other countries around the world via the BRI. If other countries are strong, then they’re harder to fight, and Americans don’t like losing wars, especially if the enemy tech gets advanced enough to strike American soil / disable American nukes.

 Global south countries with growing economies might also entangle other branches of the American bourgeoisie (the way China has) and make it more difficult to get the whole ruling class onboard with waging war.

The oil bourgeoisie wants war with China because Chinese green tech threatens their profits.

The media bourgeoisie wants war with China because other branches of the bourgeoisie pay for their advertising (and their audience is mostly ravening hogs (and the hogs-in-denial known as libs)).

Pharma bourgeoisie wants war with China because medicine produced in China (and Cuba) is cheap and actually works and therefore threatens their profits.



Tech/manufacturing haute bourgeoisie are uninterested in war with China because they profit from reselling Chinese treats to American hogs. (Witness Gates’s/Musk’s recent visits to China.)

Petite bourgeoisie is obsessed with war with China because they simply cannot compete with Amazon, which itself is basically just reselling Chinese products. They also want to become haute bourgeoisie, but can’t blame the haute bourgeoisie for their problems (since that basically means blaming themselves), so China/Jews/Muslims/woke globalist elites/“criminals” are scapegoated instead.

The American labor aristocracy wants war with China because the desk job gravy train is over for them if China manages to destroy the USA. Exceptions here are quite rare and are based on subjective factors. I belong to this class and am against the idea of war with China because I was fucked so hard and so repeatedly by American capitalism that after thirty fucking years of living in this shithole I finally figured out why I hated it so much etc., etc.

The American proletariat is I think divided over war with China? Some are uninterested because they know that they’re the ones who are going to die in a war with China, others are open to it because war might grant them the opportunity to become bourgeois (by advancing their careers in the military perhaps).

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