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By Tristan Ewins, published 27/10/2011Social movement against neo-liberalism need to be broad and tolerant.
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I'm not meaning to say China and/or India would be to blame for a future war; I am saying competition in a finite world market could lead to war. This competition would involve all the great powers - so to this I could add Europe and Japan; And certainly you would have to add the United States - which has engaged in proxy wars in the past to defend economic spheres of influence..
Imperialism in the past has involved competition for colonies; for Great Powers to dump excess produce upon; and from which to extract raw commodities cheaply; In the past control of industrialised territory was deemed even more valuable as the markets involved were bigger. This helped lead to War in 1914. Over 10 million people were killed. The war included the Ottomon Empire. (non-Caucasian) Am I (quote) "Xenophobic" to mention this?
Today the United States and China are beginning to face off economically. There is competition for markets in Africa. China could potentially be a competitor with the US in the sense of competing world economic systems based on core-periphery economic relations. (see; Immanuel Wallerstein) This could cost the United States share in the global market. When economies fully develop they potentially become 'competitors' and 'rivals'. Hence the so-called "Project for a New American Century". And yes one day it could lead to war.
From a democratic socialist perspective the ideal would be full development of all economies - rather than exploitative 'core-periphery' economic relations. But world economic relations are about power as well, and keeping peripheral economies in a dependent position serves the ends of political power.