GarbageShootAlt 1y ago • 100%
Whoever it is decided to ask the question in the negative which already makes it seem like a push poll.
Survey questions should be reversible anyway
GarbageShootAlt 1y ago • 100%
Do you know any liberal refutations of what you call myths about the PCP in this thread like there were of "Private Life of Chairman Mao"?
GarbageShootAlt 1y ago • 100%
Our Gonzalite friend is wrong about an number of things, but there is real criticism to be made about Deng radically increasing poverty by undercutting the systems installed under Mao that brought poverty to low levels. The "Chinese miracle" was in many respects solving problems that it itself caused and is a sort of liberal historical revisionism, though of course the more contemporary extreme poverty eradication initiative made real headway that was not made under Mao.
GarbageShootAlt 1y ago • 100%
Nothing you said is more unserious than
The PCP is the most advanced political party of our time
So you're probably good
GarbageShootAlt 1y ago • 100%
I was late in checking up on things but I appreciate what you shared
GarbageShootAlt 1y ago • 100%
I think some of it is liberal propaganda and Deng's reform was mainly useful for survival in capitalist encirclement, as it produced a massive degree of impoverishment for the common people early on.
GarbageShootAlt 1y ago • 88%
You're failing to understand that the interest of "tankies" is in democracy being enforced by a proletarian control of the state. The copypastas you were getting were poor communication but they had a point.
The fact that you're comfortably arguing in parallel with blatant neoliberals should give you pause, or are you going to tell me they are less of a concern because they are not "authoritarian," because when people are richer than God and control immense swaths of production and politicians themselves while skirting regulation to fuck over the workers their class made desperate by enclosing the commons, that is not "authoritarian"? This whole thing seems kind of bankrupt to me as far as political theory goes. The mechanisms of control are diffused by various means into the economy and divided among the public/private sector, but if the private sector owns the public sector (and it does) you've got a class of kings who only half-pretend they aren't (Zuck deliberately getting that Caesar haircut is a tell).
GarbageShootAlt 1y ago • 83%
There's just no point. Literally no one among the communists I've seen cheers on killing dissidents just because. Fascist collaborators, sure, but not mere dissidents. You're just inventing people to disparage.
GarbageShootAlt 1y ago • 90%
Almost like "tankies" don't have some religious reverence for "authority" but in fact specifically believe it should be directed in a certain way . . .
GarbageShootAlt 1y ago • 100%
Perfectly fair, but I specify in the second paragraph:
Specifically, do you have any criticisms of China’s contemporary culture? Its government? What are they?
I was talking about the government in the economic case.
Basically just give me anything that you can be persuaded to talk about
Hello! I would like to start off by apologizing because I know a thread like this gets posted every other day and it can border on (or actually be) concern-trolling, but I wanted to get a rough survey of opinions here on a topic. Specifically, do you have any criticisms of China's contemporary culture? Its government? What are they? I'm of the opinion that there are a lot of low-hanging fruit in this regard, like the patriarchal social order that [whatever one might say about its status in other nations] is certainly an ongoing problem for the matter of women's liberation. I also think it's both socially backwards and *bad for national security* to not have gay marriage, because we're all familiar with how the US loves infiltrating student movements. I also rather regret how the CPC seems to be trending towards expanding the role of the profit motive rather than shrinking it. See these statements: http://en.qstheory.cn/2023-05/04/c_882761.htm http://en.qstheory.cn/2023-05/05/c_882998.htm Do you agree with these points? Do you have your own criticisms? Am I totally off-base? Let me know! (btw I'm also familiar with the idea of sharing criticism with comrades but finding public criticism to be counter-productive, but I don't want to spend all day listing caveats)
GarbageShootAlt 1y ago • 100%
This will also be colored by the fact that the shitheads on beehaw can't even see what you say, but among instances that don't block us this makes sense.
GarbageShootAlt 1y ago • 100%
Incidentally, this is a great argument to China that they shouldn't back down.
GarbageShootAlt 1y ago • 100%
like they’re doing investment quarterly reports
Asked and answered
GarbageShootAlt 1y ago • 100%
I come from a family of academics, and there's a word of advice that I remember hearing said to others since I was a kid "If you want to write a thesis, you will always feel that you have not done enough research. Eventually, you need to actually write despite that feeling." Perhaps you could include the books you haven't read as a little "further reading" section.
GarbageShootAlt 1y ago • 100%
I think so? I've been blind before but I thought I remembered "agenda" being on there too.
GarbageShootAlt 1y ago • 100%
Makes perfect sense, thank you. I would have had no problem with an explanation of any length (and the forum might be interested in you making a post on this topic at some point) but I respect your time and patience.
GarbageShootAlt 1y ago • 33%
I have no doubt that there are some, but there are also insanely unscrupulous groups that actively use elementary schools as military bases and so on, so I don't think it works as a full explanation compared even to the religion hypothesis.
GarbageShootAlt 1y ago • 100%
My issue was the "gorillion", not the 20. There are other options like, idk, "bazillion" that work just as well, or just a nice simple "trillion" for the absurdity.
GarbageShootAlt 1y ago • 100%
Thank you!
wanted
If reunification has become less popular, is there a general cause of this that wouldn't require you writing out a treatise for the sake of an offhand question?