Oh thank god.

Edit: Sorry for my ignorance.

Somehow that one terrible lib with the lizard icon is still not banned, making this meme unfortunately inaccurate.

Edit: I’m a dummy, see the chain for details!

I’d agree with that. Both hardcore fascists and communists are going to be growing fast in number in the West for the next decade or so. Personally I plan to continue to be fairly public in my political beliefs, but I can see why others don’t have the same privileges that I do in this respect.

the last statement in your post strikes me as symptomatic of the same paternalism that is making liberals upset about the news of other Muslims finding China’s treatment of the Uyghurs to not be problematic.

I’m not sure how you’re getting paternalism from my comment. You must mean the last sentence of the first paragraph. I’ll quote it here for context:

The same could be said of Christianity, and I would still not like it; however, Christianity is so powerful in the world that I probably wouldn’t come to its defense.

This isn’t paternalism, in my opinion. I merely don’t think Christianity needs more people coming to its defense in English speaking circles, whereas Islam, in English speaking circles, is demonized by a lot of reactionaries, including those reactionaries on the left who are still going through their new-atheism phase.

If the OP was indeed referring to groups which are “political Islam” and seeking to push conservative and regressive changes rather than groups that are simply Islamic, it would indeed be a misunderstanding on my part. If you re-read my comment, I was careful to say that I was interpreting Islamophobia.

I think more careful language is warranted in the OP’s post, personally. I’m no expert on this distinction between “Political Islam” and “Islam” by using the term “Islamist”, but I’d guess neither are a lot of other leftists. I would be worried, though I do not know with any certainty, for our Islam-practicing comrades to come into this space and feel attacked by that post, not because they believe in the regressive ideas described, but because they might not understand the distinction that is attempting to be made.

To reiterate, though, I may just be more ignorant than most on this particular topic, in which case I think anyone could safely disregard my thoughts.

People forget that islamist groups destroy culture and tradition as an aspect of their ideology.

What? This is super Islamophobic unless I’m misunderstanding you somehow. There are groups which happen to practice Islam and destroy cultures, but it’s not a characteristic of the religion itself. The same could be said of Christianity, and I would still not like it; however, Christianity is so powerful in the world that I probably wouldn’t come to its defense.

I don’t like organized religion of any kind, but I’m not a fan of the Islamophobia that I’m interpreting from your comment.

Seems like it would be fine to get “caught” leaving these things, no? I don’t know, I wouldn’t be afraid in the US, for example, to get “caught” leaving things like that.

I guess they could charge you with littering or something, but seems unlikely. More likely an asshole might kick you out of the store or w/e.

No one considers Pol Pot a communist, but go hard at revealing your obviously propagandized mind.

Because this place is based and people here can read. Illiteracy is the best weapon of anti-communists because if people can’t read, they often can’t educate themselves that communism is the obviously better system.

It’s so good! Eugene Puryear definitely appears on the Socialist Program pretty frequently.

No worries, I just wasn’t sure if you knew.

Lmao with the units missing it looks like you’re writing “…with 25.8 billion of China’s 1.4 billion population…”.

Great recs! And to add:

• The Punch Out with Eugene Puryear

Bit hard to read with the formatting. Looks like a good and interesting list though.

A good source about the reforms under Deng. https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/supercooper_china_deng.md

lol, blaming tankies for this is hilarious.

Are you like 12 years old? You definitely act like it.

Ok, you’re still just one anecdotal source and therefore it proves nothing.

Even if it did, none of this proves the original OP’s claims that it is Xi’s dictatorial powers that caused it.

It also wouldn’t prove it’s true throughout the entire country.

But feel free to keep jacking yourself off over having some anecdotal claims and expecting anyone to take it as if it’s reliable information to extrapolate throughout the country.

Yeah, I think you’re right here, and I’ll make recommendations accordingly in the future.

To be clear, I mean no offense here, but I have no clue who you are nor any reason to trust your anecdotal experience. You might full well be telling me the truth, but it hardly qualifies as evidence sufficient for the claims being made.

Giving you the benefit of the doubt, though, you must understand that we are so heavily propagandized here in the West, that literally nothing we hear about the anti-imperialist parts of the world is trustworthy. Unless it’s good. We can be pretty confident that anything they say about China that’s good is true, but any responsible analysis of the Western media requires a close eye.

As the thread elsewhere stated, we still don’t even have a problem with the works being mandatory, but the fact is that the sources provided simply do not remotely prove the claims. Especially the “dictatorial power” nonsense that’s just patently untrue. That’s not how the CPC works. It wasn’t how the CCCP worked in the USSR either, and the West always claimed the USSR worked with “dictatorial power.”

Admittedly, Stalin had additional powers during WW2, but in order to defeat the Nazis, that seemed like a necessary and justifiable step. FDR also had additional powers during WW2, and he trampled all over the rights of innocent Japanese people living in the US, for example, putting them in concentration camps by another name, internment camps.

Personally, I’d love to have a book from the owners of JPMorgan Chase and such that explained what they’re trying to do with the current rendition of capitalism. I bet it would be hilariously contradictory. At least in socialism people can set reliable plans in motion that persist and don’t wander every 4 years from one calamity into another.

Hakim is great, good rec.