TheSovietOnion [none/use name]

I’ve seen many users here say that rare earth minerals aren’t actually rare and you basically just need to build the necessary production capacity to have them.

Is there a good Marxist analysis on how China built that while the most powerful empire ever didn’t? I’m asking because building this “rare earth” production capacity clearly appears to me as an application of what Marx describes in Kapital as the process of an industry being developed (with the little I know of it, I’m just a baby Marxist at this point). I can also see how dominating the most basic elements of production is a very obvious objective for a society with the capacity for long-term planning, as is a Marxist one. This clearly took many decades to achieve.

There has to be some hexbear piloting a cargo ship through Panama in the next couple of days

Imagine the bodies that they didn’t want to return