An unspoken but common assumption is that only hopelessly nostalgic communists would dare utter one word that could even be construed as defending the People’s Republic of China. But as Morris Kominsky has shown me in The Hoaxers (add it to your reading list if you haven’t; it’s amazing), one need not be a ‘Marxist‐Leninist’ at all to recognise the damage that the antagonization of the PRC can afflict on world peace.

Anybody who has been following me for a long time is likely aware of my relatively positive or mixed feelings about the Makhnovshchina, the Spanish Republic, the YPG, many ‘ultraleft’ thinkers (Bordiga FTW!), and that I consider the entire Eastern Bloc to have been presocialist (yes, yes, I hear your groaning), so I hope that you’ll trust me when I say that I question the standard anti‐PRC narrative not as a ‘tankie’ or ‘CPC shill’, but as an anarcho‐Bolshevik bastard concerned with world peace. But you can believe what you want to believe.

I know that this post is pretty short, but I plan on updating it later. Feel free to submit your own suggestions. Without further ado, let’s begin.

Peace groups

These are very useful if you want to talk about the PRC (and its allies) with people who are willing to listen. Peace groups also typically avoid ‘communist rhetoric’ and are easy for outsiders to grasp. Some good examples:

• ANSWER Coalition — Example of a discussion of the PRC.

• CODEPINK — feminist peace group endorsed by Sanctions Kill. Here are some videos that they made about the PRC.

• Pivot to Peace — ‘We have launched a new effort called Pivot to Peace to educate and mobilize public opinion about the benefits of a policy that facilitates cooperation and mutual respect between the United States and China.’

• Veterans For Peace — active since 1985. They have a China Working Group.

Research

• Playing Genocide Politics: The Zenz-Xinjiang Case

Miscellaneous

If somebody invokes Godwin’s law (Uigur rehabilitation = Holocaust, Xi = Schicklgruber, &c.), maybe you’ll find it useful to turn the tables and discuss the German Reich’s casus belli for Sudetenland.