Morning Comrades.
The 15th BRICS summit took place two weeks ago in South Africa and I have been meaning to write about this organization, and the subsequent shift in geopolitics for a while now, not really wanting to paraphrase smarter people than myself on topics that at this point appear to be more metaphysical than material. With the advent of the new Cold War, this topic is loaded as it is and I believe at this stage a conversation between us needs to take a few steps back and start at literacy. Literacy might not even be the right word to be honest, but a start from which we can and need to acknowledge where our understanding of the world comes from and to what purpose.
A few thoughts on the basics from this piece comes from. After the global militarised hegemony of the US over the past 70 years, and the end of the Soviet Union, it was, and remains, only natural that a counter-force to said hegemony would emerge, it’s physics more than ideology that shapes us at the very least equally as ideology does, but tell philosophers that.
BRICS is an acronym that stands for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. It represents a group of five major emerging economies from different regions around the world. The BRICS countries collaborate on various political, economic, and strategic issues, aiming to enhance their influence on the global stage and promote cooperation in areas such as trade, finance, and development.
From the western capitalist point of view, this is understood as a direct challenge to their hegemony and thus, the narrative is created for us to yet again, understand the world in good / evil, right / wrong but as humanity progresses, this is anything but that.
So let’s get into it.
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