West/East

I assume that the emergence of a new supranational imperialist pole-world after there has already been another that has already been formed, creates the historical need for this new pole-world to emerge in a different way. In this case, the new imperialist East could not emerge in the same way that the West emerged. Due to the primary historical dominance of the West, the East developed in 2 relatively distinct separate phases, while the West developed in a single framework of determinants: The West emerged as a self-contradictory unity that was composed from the beginning simultaneously of the ethno-political units and the supranational Western system of domination as a whole (all this through a continuous process of conflicts and massacres, and not as outlined in liberal historiographies). While the East (as the most powerful representative of the non-Western world) as an emerging imperialist pole-world is obliged to follow a process in two separate phases: first the nation-state emerged and then (now) an attempt is made to emerge the broader special supranational framework (in essence the imperialist new east as such).

But I want to point out something: the historical priority of the West did not make it superior, and also the singularity of the imperialist New East does not simply mean that it imitates the West and on the other hand develops a singularity that would enable it to walk the general path that the west has already carved. Both what precedes and what follows constitute, from their objective historical-chronological position, a singularity each, which, however, includes the same degree of generality. The two peculiarities of emergence constitute a single phenomenon as absolutely necessary unfoldings of its dialectical nature.

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Speaking of the new imperialist East, we make a series of horrible abstractions. What about India? what about  Indonesia? what about Japan? The relationship of these countries with the hard-line new eastern imperialists does not make them as countries members of an aggressive as a whole neo-East. Japan in particular seems to function as an advanced outpost of the West, is not a candidate to participate in a new anti-Western totalscheme. Also, in the south there is Latin America, which probably approaches the new East more than the aforementioned eastern countries. Well, the distinction between the West and the new aggressive East must be understood in a non-exclusively geographical geostrategic way.

Ιωάννης Τζανάκος