🧵A lesson from the last #ColdWar. In the 80s, one of the results of China's opening up to the outside world was that many underground movie studios popped up in neighborhoods, showing pirated western movies.
When my friends and I saw images of happy and well-nourished people and fully-stocked grocery stores through these movies, we began to question whether capitalism was really as evil as we were taught .
To our young and simple mind, if Marxist revolution means constant starvation and material shortages and capitalism leads to a full belly and material abundance, we would rather have capitalism.
Similar political awakening took place in other Communist countries too. People either fled to the West or demanded political change at home through protests. It's fair to say that the Berlin Wall fell and the West won the last cold war mainly due to the West's economic strength.
In today's new cold war, however, the West is losing its economic advantage because of its self-defeating energy policies. thefederalist.com/2022/07/25/the…
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