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Yadoppsi
May 10, 2009
^^lmao. Is he gonna gloss over the virulent antisemitism of liberal's favorite anarchist?

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Yadoppsi
May 10, 2009
Thee Ukraine

Yadoppsi
May 10, 2009

Iriscoral posted:

Liu Cixin's not a communist, and a lot of his writing is written from a very technocratic prespective, so its not surprising that he implicitly lamppoons the CR - for the modern intellectuals of China, especially those living in the coastal cities the CR is a bit of inconvienient truth to deal with.

Liu has interesting politics that used to be alot more common in the Anglophone world before WW2. Like HG Wells. Wells was into socialism when it was the domain of the salon set and liked the broad material prosperity socialism could bring, but only when it was brought top-down by far-seeing benevolent intellectual technocrats. Once it was clear actually existing socialism needed to compromise with the mass populace or even *shudder* be led by them, Wells backed away.

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