The article is about how China is George Orwell 1984 and a trillion people died in the cultural revolution and purging bourgeois elements is bad.
There are actually several decades that cannot be deleted, the ones added to Chinese life expectancy.
My fucking enlightened liberal dork dad who is usually smarter than this posted this to the family group chat lmao, as soon as anyone talks about China he immediately buys into whatever the propaganda pipes spew out.
Didn’t bother reading the article because I don’t feel like discussing it one way or another though I am sure he will smugly explain it me :libertarian-alert: style
can't believe the bourgeoise elements would be anti purging the bourgeoise elements
Lucky, in North Korea, we don't get magnum opus American literature like 1984 or Animal Farm.
All we get is 1969, a dystopian tale were cum becomes a commodity and the government forcefully extracts it through cruel and unusual milking machines stolen from mainland China. The author? Georige Orgy.
In North Korea, every year is '69, and the Summer seems to last forever. They make you "play" on a torture device until your fingers bleed, and there's no use in complaining- not when you have a "job" to do. You can try to run, but you should know that you'll never get far.
Well much like organized religious practice, this is the ritualistic repetition of the same god damn shit to wedge it just a bit further down into your brain.
It honestly just seems like church
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During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime's atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn't go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.
Liberals were taught how to read and choose not to. It's pathetic.
No, they were taught to read, then stopped after they left school because if it's not attached to some form of institutional prestige, it's clearly not worth learning. We should just have employment-based education, sorted early on so people can learn what they want to*
*Or have to given economic circumstances.
Excellent take. I fucking hate vocational education personally. I was the worst procrastinator you've ever seen when I was a physics student. Then when I did engineering I basically didn't do any work at all and they kicked me out
I am also kicked out of my parents' house sort of. Not allowed to just show up there without calling
the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry
The Decade That Cannot Be Deleted
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The present should not be used to negate the past, and the past should not be used to negate the present. Experiments in socialism from before reform produced the conditions that allowed the experiments that came after, and in this way the previous period persists in the new one...to repudiate the history of the CPSU, to repudiate Lenin, to repudiate Stalin was to wreck chaos in Soviet ideology and engage in historical nihilism. It caused Party organizations at all levels to have barely any function whatsoever. It robbed the Party of its leadership of the military. In the end the CPSU — as great a Party as it was — scattered like a flock of frightened beasts! The Soviet Union — as great a socialist state as it was — shattered into pieces. This is a lesson from the past!...had Comrade Mao Zedong been condemned unsparingly at the time, would our Party still stand? Would our country’s socialist system still stand? They would not. Nihilism would have brought chaos. Therefore, the correct handling of our relationship to experiments in socialist construction before and after reform isn’t a secondary historical question, but a political question of primary importance.
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i dont want to hear anything about "cults of personality" from a country that built a 100 m tall concrete dick in honor of its founder
