Take it with a big grain of salt, too. The article is full of orientalist trash, and is basically trying to imply that a single spooky guy dictated all Chinese policy from the shadows for 30 years.
Palladium’s political theory and analysis has touched on the importance of deradicalization, how to find meaning in a world of power hierarchies, why elite responsibility is important, the growing Confucian power center in China that is making a bid for world power, and why we need a new state consciousness to support the public good.
:lmayo: A whole magazine dedicated to imperialists’ paranoid orientalist fever dreams about China.
Yeah, but I’m skeptical in general: taken china policy together they aim to bridge the gap of rich/poor: remove displays of wealth, raise salaries of workers, that’s well and good.
But let’s dream for a moment: what if China mandated labor accounting (I.e. parallel to gaap reporting or whatever tax forms they have) in all its products, and marked them on products sold? This brings socialism much closer then socdemy policies of raising wages/disappearing rich people. Plus fighting culture is also not a good thing, it may be necessary for some short term goals, but not as a policy
I don’t disagree that China’s attempts at shaping culture can be pretty counterproductive, but I’m not really discussing anything about China here.
Just pointing out this is a garbage article from a garbage source, and you shouldn’t take it at face value.
Garbage article may have glimpses of truth, unless they completely misrepresented a) his position in party b) framing of his books c) his liking of closing the american mind
