Ten Chinese air force aircraft entered Taiwan's air defence zone on Wednesday accompanying five Chinese warships engaged in "combat readiness" patrols, the island's defence ministry said, the second such incursion this week.
Ignorance, once again, being the idea that ML orthodoxy is the only "true socialism."
That is not the hexbear line and not even relevant to the thread. Being an anarchist or whatever you like doesn't mean believing western smears of China -- like this incredibly poor article that you keep talking around.
We've been over this already and I'm not sure there's much point in carrying on this conversation if you are going to intentionally misrepresent politics I have articulated to you a number of times.
I remember now from that conversation a week ago that you insist on being some type of socialist but I am pretty sure you never specified.
And to be honest, it sounds like you are the one doing a lot of speaking for the Chinese
It's not an unfounded opinion that the CPC has strong popular support. That doesn't mean the majority of China is ML in any serious way -- plainly, they don't seem to be -- but it does support the view that articles like this are a completely bullshit characterization of the PRC - RoC situation and most people in China (and many other countries in the imperial periphery) would agree.
while making a lot of assumptions about my relationship with Chinese society. I don't really feel the need to justify any of this to you or trade cultural credentials.
Reading another comment you made in this thread: Whoops, I guess you probably have met a Marxist or two. That wasn't terribly important to my argument, I was merely speculating on how you might have developed you false opinions. Given this new information, I don't have a new guess.
I don't care about your life and wasn't attempting to initiate some identity game, I merely try to understand things in terms of how ideology is downstream from personal circumstances, and how an ideology that is well-suited to one's personal circumstances can nonetheless lead them to have a distorted view of the world outside their experience. I support your inclination to not discuss these details with me but invite you to reflect on them to yourself in this context.
That is not the hexbear line and not even relevant to the thread. Being an anarchist or whatever you like doesn't mean believing western smears of China -- like this incredibly poor article that you keep talking around.
I remember now from that conversation a week ago that you insist on being some type of socialist but I am pretty sure you never specified.
It's not an unfounded opinion that the CPC has strong popular support. That doesn't mean the majority of China is ML in any serious way -- plainly, they don't seem to be -- but it does support the view that articles like this are a completely bullshit characterization of the PRC - RoC situation and most people in China (and many other countries in the imperial periphery) would agree.
Reading another comment you made in this thread: Whoops, I guess you probably have met a Marxist or two. That wasn't terribly important to my argument, I was merely speculating on how you might have developed you false opinions. Given this new information, I don't have a new guess.
I don't care about your life and wasn't attempting to initiate some identity game, I merely try to understand things in terms of how ideology is downstream from personal circumstances, and how an ideology that is well-suited to one's personal circumstances can nonetheless lead them to have a distorted view of the world outside their experience. I support your inclination to not discuss these details with me but invite you to reflect on them to yourself in this context.
They claim to be an anarcho-syndicalist.