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]
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    4 years ago

    Lol, I'm a current American, I'm here, I'm advocating for it! I know a few hundred other people in my local org who agree! More to the point, the American left has been advocating for it for centuries. You won't get it from Hollywood movies (though Reds is fun), but there's a long history from August Willich through Emma Goldman, Fred Hampton, London Meyer, the Lincoln Brigade, etc. etc. who all fought to get rid of the constitution in it's current form. Hell, abolishing the senate was a mainstream position from the failure of the postwar anti-lynching bills until well until the 70s. Rep. Dingell, the longest-serving congressperson in history and no leftist by any standard, called for scrapping much of the constitution in his retirement speech just a few years ago. These things are up for debate, comrade, and if those voices aren't appropriately amplified by the mainstream American media, they should certainly be amplified by a Chinese "leftist" writing about America.