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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months 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] 20 points 8 months 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] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months 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] 16 points 8 months 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 8 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months 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 8 months 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 8 months 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 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months 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 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

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

xi-lib-tears

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

She's literally correct; studies from even anti-Chinese partisan sources can't help but find that satisfaction with the government is overwhelming. While you treat anti-imperialist movements like this sitting from your home in the imperial core, you're not a revolutionary or helping anybody build towards anything better, you're an active hindrance. Feel free to imbibe the actual opinions of people in China so you can understand the conditions there and not just your cracker conditioning. It's not perfect, but overthrow would be far; far worse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

(this is unrelated but I've only been going by she for a little while and it felt kinda nice to be called she like that, thank you.)

[–] Socsa 4 points 8 months ago (7 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 8 months 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 8 months ago

Hats off, from a Marxist.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Nevermind, I got banned too

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

Still I wasn't banned...

EDIT: now I am