it was taken down before, when Bo Xilai was arrested and put in jail, the CCP were targeting a lot of leftists/neo-Maoists, and Utopia was a casualty. I'm surprised it was brought back online. For those too young to know, Bo Xilai was a popular CCP member, he was governor of one of the big provinces, but what distinguished him from other CCP big shots was that he was openly promoting the egalitarianism of the Maoist period. If you're skeptical you could say it was just a vaneer, because he was controversial, his wife murdered some expat in some big business scandal or something and sent to prison. Their son was sent to some big elite Western University and drove around in a ferrari. Anyways, Bo Xilai was arrested on some corruption charge and sent to jail. It was pretty big and shocking news around leftists circles because it was under Xi's rule, and Bo's promotion of egalitarianism was supposed to allign with Xi's more "leftist" rule.
Just a few years ago, the CCP arrested some Maoist students who were supporting striking workers. Too many episodes where the CCP has shown their anti-leftism for me to uncritically support them. I only defend them on anti-imperialist grounds, they do give some breathing space to countries targeted by US imperialism.
it was taken down before, when Bo Xilai was arrested and put in jail, the CCP were targeting a lot of leftists/neo-Maoists, and Utopia was a casualty. I'm surprised it was brought back online. For those too young to know, Bo Xilai was a popular CCP member, he was governor of one of the big provinces, but what distinguished him from other CCP big shots was that he was openly promoting the egalitarianism of the Maoist period. If you're skeptical you could say it was just a vaneer, because he was controversial, his wife murdered some expat in some big business scandal or something and sent to prison. Their son was sent to some big elite Western University and drove around in a ferrari. Anyways, Bo Xilai was arrested on some corruption charge and sent to jail. It was pretty big and shocking news around leftists circles because it was under Xi's rule, and Bo's promotion of egalitarianism was supposed to allign with Xi's more "leftist" rule.
Just a few years ago, the CCP arrested some Maoist students who were supporting striking workers. Too many episodes where the CCP has shown their anti-leftism for me to uncritically support them. I only defend them on anti-imperialist grounds, they do give some breathing space to countries targeted by US imperialism.