"you ask “Why is capitalism so often abstracted from its wider geopolitical contexts?” Part of the answer is it’s “a way of avoiding the real ‘nastiness’” that lies behind it. There’s the well-known saying—that it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism—which you say is patently untrue, and you argue that what is really harder to imagine than the end of the world is “the end of the absolute geopolitical dominance of the West.”
https://emergencemagazine.org/interview/beings-seen-and-unseen/