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Cake day: July 10th, 2020

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  • Defending against accusations of genocide? Yes. Although the phrasing can sound odd because it is largely a fabricated narrative. I think most here would support China’s actions as a deradicalization program against religious extremism, especially compared to the US solution in neighboring Afghanistan and Iraq.

    Tankie is really just used as an insult against “communists I don’t like.” It’s not like it has any theoretical depth. It has an etymology related to the definition they gave you but that only has so much influence on its use.

    Class war is the ongoing state of things. Like infation and rent hikes. If a revoluton broke out, of course it would be authoritarian. And the resulting state would probably take an extremely cautious siege socialism approach if it wanted to survive, so yes it would probably be authoritarian. But choosing to not be authoritarian is really just willfully ceding power to the previous ruling class who are not going to give up their position peacefully, even after a revolution. Think about the media narrative and war hawk stances against Cuba, the DPRK, the PRC. Now imagine that but applied to a newly founded socialist republic.










  • Your repression in Xinjiang rivals the Soviet gulags.

    lmao

    Even better:

    Your zero-Covid policy has, at times, transformed China’s great metropolises into vast and unlivable prison colonies.

    and, pray tell, where exactly is China’s “truculence” you speak of?

    I hate that all the NYT is considered the cream of the crop and all the uni educated libs around me imbibe this crap uncritically.






  • Have you checked out Carl Zha’s silk and steel podcast? I’ve only listened to his episodes with Xiangyu on Taiwan and an interview about US black radical’s relationship with China, but he has a lot more on Patreon I think. Only issue is that his audio quality is bad. I don’t know what his political views are but he usually defends China, and Xiangyu is ML.

    There’s also the War Nerd podcast which isn’t ML but has interviewed Carl Zha about the Tang dynasty invading three kingdoms Korea (if I remember correctly), China’s involvement in WWII, and the rise of the Mongol Empire in addition to many other good interviews. I have that link somewhere if you’re interested.