Chomsky whines about the USSR and calls its collapse "a win for the left". Absolutely unbelievable. Of course he has nothing to say about 1993 protests or the fact that the majority of Russians who experienced life in the USSR want it back.
Zizek calls China a "bad model for the left". Of course no actual socialist experiment is ever good enough for the ivory tower intellectual. Even worse, he keeps saying he hopes that China will liberalize its government. So fuck the DotP, lets just give away power to the capitalists, because that is literally what will happen in a liberal democracy, and he knows it.
"hard pill to swallow", "defending china"
why do you assholes always think we're emotional about china or some bullshit psychology like that
it's not spending time "defending china", it's actually studying the fucking experiment to see if there's anything worth salvaging for our own synthesis, especially for those of us in the 3rd world
in fact i've never wished for china to be socialist (and it's actually anti-marxist as fuck to talk about material reality in photographic terms), i was spewing shit china takes like yours left and right until what, earlier this year, when i realized i was completely wrong and had to give in