:bjp-cool: I hope a naxalite parodies Modi one of this days
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Liberals and leftists who dislike the CCP MUST understand that if the “evil CCP” is defeated, China will go down the EXACT same path as Russia. Leftists especially need to understand what color revolutions are. It seriously disturbs me how many “leftists” absolutely DESPISE China but have never done anything to counter U.S. imperialism.
if the “evil CCP” is defeated, China will go down the EXACT same path as Russia
The original play from the West was to install a Capital-friendly apparatchik akin to Yeltsin in the politburo. But Bo Xilai was ousted by Xi Jinping for doing far too many crimes for the rest of the leadership’s tastes.
The effort to control China from above backfired in much the same way it backfired in Russia. But with the added twist that Communism, as an ideology, reasserted itself more strongly than at any point in post-Cold War geopolitics.
If “the evil CCP” is defeated, what Americans may find themselves with is an even more Based leftist movement.
It’s infuriating because many of those “leftists” are simultaneously under the delusion that it’s best for everyone involved “in the long run” (but also Russia bad lol), for both China and the World. Even way back when I was an anti-China/USSR SocDem, I thought the USSR collapsing the way it did was an objectively terrible thing.
It seriously disturbs me how many “leftists” absolutely DESPISE China but have never done anything to counter U.S. imperialism.
They’re just neolibs who want Healthcare.
I always found it interesting that the Tiananmen Square protests happened in 1989 right when all the other “pro-democracy” protests in the socialist world did, but it didn’t succeed.
Tankiest I've ever been
This is why the repression at Tiananmen Square ended up being good for China in the long run
Meh. It was an internal conflict that combined western-inspired student protests with Maoist anti-land-reformists in support of an outgoing CCP leader’s vision for the country. It’s very difficult to pick sides in the fight, because it wasn’t an East v West confrontation nearly so much as it was a Stalin v Trotsky domestic power struggle that manifested itself as a national media spectacle.
The Gang Of Four coming into and out of power in China did far more to shape the modern direction of the Chinese socialist character than this minor flare up on the eve of a multi-decade Chinese bull run.
