Stormy Times Ahead: On Emerging Vassal Structures in Geopolitics

Abstract

The major choice, which mankind is approaching, is between the alternative of an exploitation-guided racism and a democracy-guided humanism. The paper proceeds in three steps: First, some empirically observable features of exploitation-guided racism are highlighted. The new strategic approach of Donald Trump, the Trump-style meme, is described along its sequence of actions: (1) provocative boost, (2) military threat, (3) tailored military action, (4) exploitative ‘deal’. The next part describes empirically observed as well as hypothetical resistance against the new exploitation-guided racism. The two prevalent forms of resistance are covered, namely, observed actual resistance based on and taking place in local cultural entities, and global science-based resistance of an emerging global class of organic intellectuals. In conclusion, it is speculated that the next five years will see a frightening advance of exploitation-guided racism on a global level, but a consolidation of the resistance network of local cultural cells brought about by the emergent global central nervous system of organic intellectuals will parallel this process. If this happens, what can be expected in the global political economy in the near future will be stormy times ahead.