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Not everything bad about China is CIA propaganda. They have a long way to go, economically and socially. At the same time, there’s factually a large anti-PRC budget for US propaganda, largely stemming from the large amount of friction faced when dealing with a socialist country in the world capitalist market. It’s accelerated because the PRC is currently surpassing the US in many key metrics, and is charted to do so in other areas in the coming years.
Which part of this do you disagree with? You're being a contrarion at this point, I outright stated that not everything bad about China is a lie, just that a huge portion of it is. You just stated that "the truth is in the middle," but what I stated above already acknowledges that while good overall, China has a long way to go socially and economically. In fact, the fact that they largely succeed in their planning and are continuously improving both shows how far they have come and how far they have to go.
People are disagreeing with you moreso because you're just picking fights and playing the contrarion.
Relying on your own personal anecdotes to prove a point is not helpful, same with asserting that someone has had to live in a socialist country to understand socialism. The truth is that socialism isn't oligarchy. All socialist countries have had governments, yes, but these are democratically elected. Further, socialism doesn't require "equal" distribution of resources, Marx railed against the "equalitarians" that argued as such.
Moreover, you seem to be confused on Marxism. Communism is a global system, countries like Cuba, the PRC, or the former USSR are examples of socialism. Socialism is a transitional status towards communism, it's the process of sublimating property until production is fully collectivized and thus society becomes classless, and this can only be complete globally.
As an example, wealth inequality in the USSR was around a difference of five times from the top and the bottom, while in Tsarist and capitalist Russia that number was hundreds to thousands od times higher.
Overall, people are being accused of being a liberal because their understanding of socialism and communism are severely lacking, and myopic.
I've also talked to actual Chinese people that live in China, too. The Marxists are more correct about China than the liberals, by quite a laughably large margin.
Not everything bad about China is CIA propaganda. They have a long way to go, economically and socially. At the same time, there's factually a large anti-PRC budget for US propaganda, largely stemming from the large amount of friction faced when dealing with a socialist country in the world capitalist market. It's accelerated because the PRC is currently surpassing the US in many key metrics, and is charted to do so in other areas in the coming years.
Mao is very popular in the PRC, and among Marxists. The modern CPC recognizes his contributions as around 70% good, 30% bad. The Cultural Revolution in particular is a touchy subject largely seen as a misstep, but certainly not a "genocide" either. Same with famine, which was previously common in China but was only ended by the communists in power.
Mao's popularity stems from establishing socialism in China, successfully kicking out the Japanese imperialists and then winning the civil war against the nationalist Kuomintang, and building up a robust system of socialism in early China, accomplishing metrics like a doubling in life expectancy, large (but unstable, as Deng would later stabilize with socialist market reforms) economic growth, banning footbinding, and more.
Since changing from within is impossible, and voting in a new party is highly unlikely, it seems the revolutionaries were right all along.
Yep, both are true, but the balance of power is still heavily in the US's favor. Israel has counter-influence, of course, but at the end of the day it's the US that holds all of the cards.
Thanks for the recs! And you too, have a great week!
Thanks for your comment! I definitely need to read more about the Middle East, I'll see if I can find books going over the events you talked about.
The tail doesn't wag the dog. AIPAC and Israel have some level of counterinfluence over the US, but the US Empire is the hegemon, and Israel its vassel. Trying to paint the US as under the control of Israel is mostly an actually antisemetic dogwhistle, and plays into the idea that a Jewish cabal is controlling the world's Empire.
I know you probably aren't intending it that way, but it's important to correctly criticize the genocidal entity "Israel." Mis-analyzing the dynamics at play weakens our chances of rectifying them.
Ultras desparately trying to argue that the country that spent a decade trying to form an anti-fascist coalition, and ended up being by far the most important power in defeating the Nazis (with ~85% of total Nazis killed under their belt), actually was pro-Nazi for having engaged in a deal for desparately needed processed goods while preparing for war with said country because the west wouldn't provide what they needed
Glad to see Captain Ibrahim Traoré carrying the torch of Sankara!
Far moreso than western governments, yes.
No. The reason Trump won was because the DNC pivoted harder to the right, further alienating its voterbase. The left had nothing to do with why the DNC ran a harder right campaign. The country isn't as far-right as you'd think, but the two-party system is increasingly suffocating and alienating.
I definitely think it can be combined with socialist realism, and serve as good art for a coherent socialist party to use as agitprop. Clearly the ideas resonate, and fascists will just use it freely if we don't.
I'm not demonizing it. I partially agree with the post, but my opinion is as I stated it, solarpunk is devoid of a strong ideological backing and needs one to be a truly useful tool, otherwise its use is highly dependent on whoever is wielding it. Same issue that cottagecore ran into. It isn't inherently bad, nor is it actually a good thing as it stands.
When the aesthetic takes the place of the movement, it turns from useful tool into an obstacle to overcome. That's why there needs to be a strong theoretical background using it as agitprop, and not just existing as something to be freely twisted to suit anyone's narrative.
Well, since you brought these up...
You seem to have a fantasy view of Marxists, while not being very well-read on socialist theory either. If you focused on connecting with people I think you'd get farther.