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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Why would State Capitalists allow discussions about actual communism? God forbid he people get it into their head to form trade unions..

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't quite tell if this is a parody, the trade union bit makes it seem sincere, but the self-importance to think that lemmy is too left for China to allow is just amazing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

What is left about China? They literally murdered people for demanding the right to establish trade unions (see Tienamin Square)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

see Tienamin Square

I'm looking it up, and I don't see any "Tienanmin Square". Could it be "Tiananmen Square" that you're thinking of? The one protesting government corruption? Where unarmed soldiers were burned alive? Where Christian sickos were trying to get students in the line of fire to create atrocity propaganda? Surely there must be some confusion here!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes, one of their demands was the right to establish trade unions.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Were the trade unionists the ones immolating unarmed soldiers and stringing up their corpses?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Seriously if that shit happened in the US, the national guard would call in an A-10 gun run on the crowd

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The US is a plutocracy. What's your point?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

What type of society do you think would allow you to burn other people to death and string up their corpses? Is it one that you think would be an improvement over modern China?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

point is focus your criticisms on your own society that's 1000x worse than even the most exaggerated crimes about China, cracker. Chinese people aren't children and they can handle their own country in their own way, they don't need some forum poster condescending to them and you don't need a warped preoccupation with a country that probably has nothing to do with you

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I stand in solidarity with all oppressed people everywhere, and I will do more than just criticize oppressors

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you have anything but the most condescending and one-sided "solidarity" for a people who support their government?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I dont stand in solidarity with people who support oppressors, no.

Fortunately most people do not support their government.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unfortunately for your ideology, most Chinese people support their government:

https://ash.harvard.edu/files/ash/files/final_policy_brief_7.6.2020.pdf

How do you reconcile this? Shall we trot out some paternalisms about "brainwashing" next?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I’m almost disappointed that Xinjiang or secret police stations haven’t been trotted out yet.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

January 6th already happened but no consequences did. The US will only deploy violence if the movement is left of whatever their crazy idea of center is.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

aww muffin so sorry you're still seething western color revolution failed

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i'm sure Chinese people need patronizing crackers from the west to instruct them on what communism actually is

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What? I stand with the Chinese people against their oppressors. Criticism of an oppressive State is not criticism of its victims.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

...how often do you interact with Chinese people? Whenever I go back home to Wuhan I don't really see much oppression happening.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

almost no one in China feels that their state is an oppressive force, they feel the opposite. The government has more than a 90% approval rating. The overwhelming majority of Chinese people view their society as legitimate and socialist. If you had any interest in democracy at all you'd respect this perspective instead of imposing your own

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's about the level of response I'd expect from a lib to inconvenient facts

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol you think everyone who criticizes Capitalist governments like the US and China are liberals?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

If it walks like a liberal and talks like a liberal, it's a liberal.

xi-lib-tears

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

To be fair, .ml bans you pretty quickly for discussing anything outside of a pretty narrow stripe of Marxist Leninist orthodoxy as well.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't consider myself a Marxist, Leninist, or communist of any stripe and haven't had a problem so far. I'm far enough left that I refuse to call myself a liberal, but I suspect the folks who consider themselves Marxists probably think I'm too far right to self-identify as a leftist. (Although I do.)

Shitload of downvotes a time or two, but that's about it. I just wanted to be on a Lemmy instance that was honoring the fedipact, and preferred it to have an instance ethos to the left of mine rather than to the right of it.

I like it here.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Hats off, from a Marxist.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This is just a meme everyone repeats until they believe it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I don't think that's a fair criticizm. After all my dumb ass hasn't been banned (so far).