I swear unanimous appreciation of china was a pretty common sentiment and now I'm consistently seeing upbeared comments about how china isn't and never was a socialist state, and how actually their use of markets is as bad if not worse than america. What's going on? IDK what to think or what side I'm on here but it just seems like opinions fundamentally changed so quickly, it's weird.

    • p_sharikov [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I think a lot of people here would like an Intro to China reading list if some more knowledgeable people want to make one.

    • skollontai [any]
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      4 years ago

      The point about Western China stans undermining the Chinese labor movement is key. If you spend more time on chapo.chat defending Xi Jinping than you do posting about 996 tech workers, or the factory workers who built your phone, or the debt systems that prevail in the Chinese farming industry, take a step back from the keyboard and think for a moment about whose side you're on.

    • Express [any,none/use name]
      4·
      4 years ago

      It’s a perversion :zizek-joy:

      They are people in the imperial core rejecting the imperial core’s identity and siding with the new satan, China. They don’t even side with the China, Chinese nationalist put out as propaganda, but a redemptive version of the imperial boogeyman.

      I need a word for these Chinese weeaboos.