Michel’s Substack: Fourth Generation Civilization

Michel’s Substack: Fourth Generation Civilization

The role of the Chinese developmental model in the context of a history of societal coordination

A rewrite of my X diary series, #BauwensInChina, on X.com/mbauwens, with 70 entries so far.

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Michel Bauwens
Nov 28, 2025
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China plays a very specific role in the evolution of coordination models. This is my hypothesis of how it fits in a larger ‘macro-historical’ view. So bear with me as I set the stage for this interpretation.

What justifies looking at world history as a competition between ‘coordination elites’ is that each coordination regime creates a different kind of …

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