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Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

Communism will win and Comrade Xi will be the instrument of its victory.

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Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

Free housing? Then why are there so many homeless people literally everywhere in China?

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

Kurnugia posted:

Because there are caveats. Namely, you need to have been born in the city to receive any of the services it provides, including the free housing and healthcare and all that. Population control y'know.

Another big caveat is their bourgeois state governing a capitalist society.

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

The Kingfish posted:

Reading a law review article right now where the author claims, sans authority, that "[t]oday's bourgeoisie . . . outnumbers the proletariat and overpowers the aristocracy"

lol

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

David Bowie went through a fascist phase in the 70s and he was still somehow cool so I guess its possible.

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

gradenko_2000 posted:

extremely normal university

normal universities are what they call teaching unis, its a term that was relatively common in the West 50 years ago

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

Karl Barks posted:

i saw "the great wall" and holy poo poo it was bad.

Zhang Yimou is the greatest director mainland China ever produced and catering to white people ruined him.

They should send him to the Bingbing hole.

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

You think that's nuts, I've got some hot takes from 1848 that are still scorching.

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

I remember some goons in the main thread kept trying to tell me that China stealing copyright is a real problem a working class person should care about.

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

The same class dominants both countries, hth

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

Typo posted:

if you take a serious look at the world: how many dies from capitalism: lack of basic healthcare, starvation, imperialist wars, you'll realize that capitalism kills more in a month than Socialist concentration camps in west China would in 10 years

How many people have died of similar conditions in China who would have lived if Maoism and Dengism were capable of providing the same quality of life in 70 years as Marxist-Leninism was able to provide in only 15?

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

Norton the First posted:

I, personally, cannot wait for China to Napoleon III some country in Africa that makes the error of defaulting on its debt.

Reverse unequal treaties in exchange for food shipments.

Liverpool leased to Ali Baba for 100 years.

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

Wow, what a cool country.

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

drat, manned moon mission by 2036 and full socialism by 2050? China's future is looking bright!

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

cool, can't wait for all the steamy fanart of karl marx + bowsette engels while thot jenny fumes in the background

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

I want a visual novel where you're a teenage Marx romancing various 19th century philosophers at Hegel Highschool

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

Evidence that Comrade Xi needs to build more camps..

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

Is every great power propelled on to the world's stage by a great crisis that overthrows the old order? The US and USSR became superpowers after the World Wars, Britain embraced the radical transformations of the industrial revolution in order to conquer the largest empire in history, Rome adapted itself to the sea and defeated Carthage, etc.

We'll probably look back at the collapse of neoliberalism and the climate crisis as the parents of the Chinese century.

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

Well Britain's moment of triumph was Waterloo. They had fought almost continuous wars with France and it was the deep reserves of capital their modern banking system provided that allowed them to outlast Napoleon. They were even heavily subsidizing the other Coalition powers. With their largest colonial rival weakened they swallowed the world. It wasn't a complete victory, the world was still multipolar, but it remained so precisely because the UK's economic revolution was exported and imitated by other Europeans, America, and eventually the world.

Similarly, the World Wars mark the end of a certain type of Capitalism, the colonial-settler phase. America was most suited for the new forms of imperialism that replaced it, I guess. Its a globalized neoliberal Capitalism inaugurated with the Bretton-Woods System and international organizations like the UN.

Right now China is the only power offering an alternative to neoliberalism and the only one seriously investing in green tech. They're building a lot of goodwill in certain African nations, who's populations are set to explode. America isn't leading anybody.

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

tino posted:

American Capitalism only works in an expending market. Once the entire globe is saturated with liberal capitalism the big fishes have to start eating the small fishes, hence the financial crisis. To quote something I heard on youtube, we are at the full swing of the Second Glided Age.

Yeah it was all buoyed artificially by the destruction of Europe.

Anyways I don't know what I was going on about last night. It was a thought experiment not serious historiography.

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

They had a conflict over a road being built in disputed territory like last year, yea?

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

China's history of antagonism towards a fellow socialist state is shameful.

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

So buddying up with Kissinger and Nixon while bombs are still falling on Southeast Asia is acceptable realpolitik but aligning yourself with the USSR is revisionist? OK

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

China is going to save anime.

e: and wrestling

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

That's cool but I prefer the design of the Jingzhou one.

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

Its possible to be a Marxist and support nations governed by Marxist Parties without necessarily supporting everything they do. It's not like every supporter of the liberal bourgeois world order feels the need to cover for the US prison system or the Japanese internment camps or whatever. Uighur camps are bad and need to stop.

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

There's The Young Karl Marx from a year ago. Haven't sat down to watch it yet, but they reviewed it on Chapo.

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

You don't have to pay holograms. Plus it further establishes the media as being pure simulacrum with no reference in the real.

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

R. Guyovich posted:

there's a book coming out in june about the resurgence of maoism that might be decent

Title?

e: found it

Mantis42 has issued a correction as of 09:34 on Mar 27, 2019

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

typo and r guyovich among other internet leftist have already peer pressured me into becoming a xi supporter

its not so bad. the prc does bad things but they're the best hope for mankind, and also they have trains

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

Jesus already returned, his name was Hong Xiuquan.

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

Reminder that an independent Polish labor union was responsible for the breakup of the Eastern bloc and the greatest decrease in the quality of life in history.

Mantis42 has issued a correction as of 16:54 on Apr 4, 2019

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

The USSR was 70 percent good and cool, actually.

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

The CIA managed to lure the Premier of China into this ladder factory, you WON'T believe what happens next!!

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

well at some point we're kinda hoping walmart will just organically evolve into this

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

Brutal dictator Xi Jinping crushes individual liberty to destroy biosphere in pursuit of fantasy coins. Horrible!!

Mantis42 has issued a correction as of 18:53 on Apr 9, 2019

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

Xi Jinping is the People's Lama.

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

that's the first video of a Chinese construction worker I've seen where no one died.

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

All of China's historical rebellions have cool rear end names and history. The Yellow Turbans, The White Lotus Society, The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, The Boxer Rebellion...

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Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

Surely the contention lies with harmful beliefs and not with architecture, which constitutes humanity's shared inheritance?

China's heavyhanded anti religious policies may be as much as 30% bad.

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