"Sorry to ruin your "fun" commies"

  • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Maybe if I had reasonable news about china I would have a much more nuanced take.

    Despite being explicitly anti-PRC I've found the Chuang collective to ironically give a far more positive and nuanced view of China than any western media, like in their long-form history of economic development in China they actually talk about what the Great Leap Forward even was, why these decisions happened, where the models for it came from, etc instead of the western narrative that Mao personally ate twenty billion sparrows and made all the farmers melt all of their tools which made all the crops fail. Like I came away from reading Sorghum and Steel with a far more positive view of China than before, despite it being literally bookended with flowery leftcom denunciations of China and the CPC. Similarly, their coverage of the Hong Kong riots featuring an interview with Hong Kong anarchists involved in the movement that was like half "Hong Kong cops are in fact bastards on account of being cops" and half "also the broader protest is naive, deeply liberal, sexist, and openly racist and we can't address these things constructively because any dissent is brutally punished by the reactionary elements" did a good job of educating some anarchists I know that the Hong Kong protests were in fact a shitty movement.

    • PlantsRcoolToo [any]
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      4 years ago

      That sounds awesome I'll have to check them out

      Mao personally ate twenty billion sparrows and made all the farmers melt all of their tools which made all the crops fail

      Lmao that's literally what they taught us in my highschool, ok maybe not the mao eating them part