I don’t think the Chinese government is genociding the Uyghur people, and I agree that a lot of the press on the subject is effectively just US imperialist propaganda.
I don’t think that pointing out that there is US propaganda about Xinjiang, actually, itself, constitutes an explanation of what’s going on in Xinjiang. But that’s generally as far as any of these threads go. It’s not very satisfactory IMO.
How about looking at the reinstatement of capitalism in China, and thinking about how capitalist relations breed conditions for inequality and discrimination against racial and ethnic minorities (like in the US, for example). Or how about the idea that socialism, and working class control of the productive forces, creates conditions for eliminating these inequalities.
I hear a lot about how the Chinese government is spending money to benefit the Uyghurs, on job training for example. But what is the character of this spending? Is it qualitatively different than how the US government spends money on public education for racial and ethnic minorities?
I don’t think the Chinese government is genociding the Uyghur people, and I agree that a lot of the press on the subject is effectively just US imperialist propaganda.
I don’t think that pointing out that there is US propaganda about Xinjiang, actually, itself, constitutes an explanation of what’s going on in Xinjiang. But that’s generally as far as any of these threads go. It’s not very satisfactory IMO.
How about looking at the reinstatement of capitalism in China, and thinking about how capitalist relations breed conditions for inequality and discrimination against racial and ethnic minorities (like in the US, for example). Or how about the idea that socialism, and working class control of the productive forces, creates conditions for eliminating these inequalities.
I hear a lot about how the Chinese government is spending money to benefit the Uyghurs, on job training for example. But what is the character of this spending? Is it qualitatively different than how the US government spends money on public education for racial and ethnic minorities?