I got a flyer in the fucking mail about this. "CHINA BEFORE COMMUNISM" and there's pictures of people in elaborate dresses dancing in front of picturesque scenes of what I assume are monuments from Imperial China.
Like, even if most of the capitalist or ultra propaganda is true and China is a bourgeois imperialist state, conditions are still better for the people today than in Imperial China. It should be obvious even to libs that whatever parts of imperial Chinese culture that might seem aesthetically beautiful or otherwise pleasing were available only to a tiny segment of the population: the ruling class. The vast majority of the people were peasants who lived horrific lives, even by the standards of peasants who still remain today because back then famines happened regularly.
But have you considered that the flag in China is now red? This does more damage to the lives of everyday people than any unimportant bullshit like landlords or working conditions sweaty
I got a flyer in the fucking mail about this. "CHINA BEFORE COMMUNISM" and there's pictures of people in elaborate dresses dancing in front of picturesque scenes of what I assume are monuments from Imperial China.
Like, even if most of the capitalist or ultra propaganda is true and China is a bourgeois imperialist state, conditions are still better for the people today than in Imperial China. It should be obvious even to libs that whatever parts of imperial Chinese culture that might seem aesthetically beautiful or otherwise pleasing were available only to a tiny segment of the population: the ruling class. The vast majority of the people were peasants who lived horrific lives, even by the standards of peasants who still remain today because back then famines happened regularly.
But have you considered that the flag in China is now red? This does more damage to the lives of everyday people than any unimportant bullshit like landlords or working conditions sweaty