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      • Alaskaball [comrade/them]M
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        Pretty common tactics especially when America is not on its has never been on a moral high horse anymore after Bush and Trump.

        • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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          It never was, but for a while the general consensus of the American people was that America was good. I'd say that after 2005 that fact stopped and most Americans now agree that America is awful.

          • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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            Most wouldn't go as far as "awful." I'd say most would agree that America has done some bad things, but is still fundamentally good.

            It's an opinion unsupportable if one has any real understanding of even just 21st-century American history, but that's what propaganda gets you.

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        its stupid because the governmental systems that caused those things are completely different now. and not just a 'we went from slavery to wage slavery' kind of way. and lets not forget that china was colonized for around a century and had to have all of their ethnic groups unite in order to fight off foreign puppets.

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      “Han” people really should not be characterized as a “single” ethnic group

      Colonialism isn't simply racism. The idealistic superstructure of racialization is formed to rationalize the already existing material inequalities between peoples.

      To characterize all Chinese people as “same, homogenous, uniform droids that simply subjugated natives in settling across China” is quite racist.

      using idpol to defend profit focused market ideology

  • Mardoniush [she/her]
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    Like yes, Mao would have axed Deng so damned hard if he'd known the plan.

    But while I have strong criticisms of Dengist policies, China is still here, still doing a socialism, and the Warsaw Pact is not. Hard choices had to be made in the 80s, and the survival of AES was more important than any policy, so I forgive them having little a NEP as a treat.

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        Ultra left is generally aimed at people that are extremely uncompromising or utopian, with a very narrow view of what leftism is. The person in this post can be considered an "ultra" because they believe China was only socialist under Mao.

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          ML/Anarchist: The strike starts tomorrow, and management will crumble from infighting soon after. That's when we make our move to seize the factory by arms and supplant it with our mutual aid network.

          Ultra: Ah, but how will this abolish of the value form?

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          If you look up "LeftCom" in the DSM-5 it redirects you to "Infantile Disorders".

  • RNAi [he/him]
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    This goes in the dunk tank

    Anarchists upholding Mao just because Chyna bad! For fuck sake

  • TossedAccount [he/him]
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    So is the idea that China is "settling" Tibet and Xinjiang? That's the only way that the "settler-colonial" part makes sense.

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      immediately made incoherent by the fact that Tibet was liberated (in their minds authoritarianly occupied) by Mao (who they supposedly support)

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      Even if you argue somehow tibet is being "colonized", Xinjiang has been a part of Chinese empires for so fucking long-- it's actually an insane take to assume a modern chinese state would not include this area.

      Also, the Chinese build islands out of sand so they can slap down military bases. Hardly comparable to the fucking Trail of Tears or literally the entire post Civil War era of American history-- which includes this nation's worst excesses and crimes.

      • kristina [she/her]
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        Also the Soviet Republic of Xinjiang voted to be annexed into China. They also had a referendum on joining the Soviet Union too. They decided to join China and they joined it conditionally.

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  • drinkinglakewater [he/him]
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    Indigenous Anarchist Federation making Maoist arguments is not something I expected to see lol this is actually kinda cool minus the first tweet

    • PlantsRcoolToo [any]
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      Big difference is that the huge % of Uyghurs were ISIS fighters and responsible for attacks on civilians throughout china.

  • astigmatic [none/use name]
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    ok so what do they want to do about it. why do they think this opinion is so important to get out there. sure they’re entitled to it but then what?? where is it supposed to lead??

    • Yun [he/him]
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      They want people to support the totally not CIA orchestrated "Free Tibet" and "Free Uyghurs" movements obviously.

  • Chomsky [comrade/them]
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    Maybe they meant imperialist and got their terms shuffled?