American “Revolution”: The “Black Hole” of American Electioneering and the Lessons China Must Draw — Qiao Collective
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The assumption that the US political system is "perfect" prevents systemic critiques of American liberalism and individualism, Chinese blogger Tu Zhuxi argues.

Everyone outside the imperial core is subjected to the American/European outside observer, the least you can do is return the favor.

Maybe it'll stop some people from going "China bad this. China bad that" when they haven't read a single letter from someone who lives there.

  • skollontai [any]
    2·
    4 years ago

    tfw Sanders is the entire American left

    I dunno, this kind of nihilism about the Western left may work for people who don't live in the West, but it's not politically useful for those of us who do. Ostensible "leftists" from other countries like the author of the article should be seeking to make connections with the people who are actually engaged in anti-imperialist struggle, not strawmaning Sanders as the leftward limit of American politics. The American left is weak, but it hasn't always been, and it won't always be. In my part of the U.S., being a Sanders stan is centrist. That's my point--generalization bad, amplifying the voices of comrades good.

      • skollontai [any]
        2·
        4 years ago

        Lol, I said I wanted to burn the constitution one comment down from here, comrade. Totally agree that the regime is wholly unacceptable. I simply disagree with the author of this piece that the American left is DOA. The western left is not 100% made up of children who love Bernie Sanders... Chris Mullin saw the Corbyn/Sanders thing coming four decades ago.

        Also I'm a fan of "political and civil rights" and not a fan of ethnic nationalism (anywhere, but particularly in one of the world's two superpowers). So yeah, I disagree with this author on a lot.

        the American left has always, always supported American imperialism (wars, coups, sanctions).

        Due respect, but you may wish to learn a little more about the history of the American left before you sound off like this. Both of the high points of American left power (post WWI and 1969) revolved around opposition to wars. Obviously I wish the American left had done a better job in opposing American imperialism, but the one thing you learn reading history is that there is always someone who is seeing the issue clearly at the time. I mean, there were even parliamentarians opposing British activities in India in the 18th century on what we would now call anti-imperialist grounds. The fact that they failed does not diminish the fact that they were right.

        All “authoritarianism” smears against global south leaders can be traced back to the bullshit spouted by the “founding fathers” while they owned slaves. It’s a pseudo-religion which not even American leftists reject.

        I hope you meet some actual American leftists someday. Founding fathers fetishism is the province of right wingers and people from Massachusetts, as far as I can tell.