"I've read literally zero books on United States foreign policy and subversion tactics in colour revolutions dating back to Hungary 1956
"I've also read zero books on how the US uses atrocity propaganda against its enemies to start war (which is shocking frankly because US has been at war for 93% of its existence)
A prototypic Red-basher who pretended to be on the Left was George Orwell. In the middle of World War II, as the Soviet Union was fighting for its life against the Nazi invaders at Stalingrad, Orwell announced that a “willingness to criticize Russia and Stalin is the test of intellectual honesty. It is the only thing that from a literary intellectual’s point of view is really dangerous” (Monthly Review, 5/83).
Safely ensconced within a virulently anticommunist society, Orwell (with Orwellian doublethink) characterized the condemnation of communism as a lonely courageous act of defiance. Today, his ideological progeny are still at it, offering themselves as intrepid left critics of the Left, waging a valiant struggle against imaginary Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist hordes.
There are criticisms and discussions to be had on China, on its (gentler) imperialistic tenencies, its culturally embedded Han Nationalism (which is being fought by the party, even as it influences it) how its (neccessary) embrace of capitalist mechanisms hurts workers, on how the Chicago School trained economists and their dismissal of planning is damaging.
Even more so on its antagonistic relationship to Vietnam and its support of conservative parties in other nations over proletarian internationalism.
None of these are to be aired anywhere that critical support for anti-imperialism isn't assumed. They will be used as cudgels against not just China but the whole left, and will split the workers. The first rule of leftism is the first rule of D&D "Never split the party"
"I've read literally zero books on United States foreign policy and subversion tactics in colour revolutions dating back to Hungary 1956
"I've also read zero books on how the US uses atrocity propaganda against its enemies to start war (which is shocking frankly because US has been at war for 93% of its existence)
"But let me tell you how hong kong and belarus were grass roots movements and not astro turfed with tens of millions of Usd by Ned and Cia and how China are nazis for keeping 20 million Uyghurs in camps or how China is imperialist despite what China is doing in Africa is far more humane then the Anglo-european axis ever was."
-Parenti
The fact that China has not created an economy based on severed hands as Belgium did in the Congo makes this blatantly clear.
There are criticisms and discussions to be had on China, on its (gentler) imperialistic tenencies, its culturally embedded Han Nationalism (which is being fought by the party, even as it influences it) how its (neccessary) embrace of capitalist mechanisms hurts workers, on how the Chicago School trained economists and their dismissal of planning is damaging.
Even more so on its antagonistic relationship to Vietnam and its support of conservative parties in other nations over proletarian internationalism.
None of these are to be aired anywhere that critical support for anti-imperialism isn't assumed. They will be used as cudgels against not just China but the whole left, and will split the workers. The first rule of leftism is the first rule of D&D "Never split the party"
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