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.
Lol, I said I wanted to burn the constitution one comment down from here, comrade. Totally agree that the regime is wholly unacceptable. I simply disagree with the author of this piece that the American left is DOA. The western left is not 100% made up of children who love Bernie Sanders… Chris Mullin saw the Corbyn/Sanders thing coming four decades ago.
Also I’m a fan of “political and civil rights” and not a fan of ethnic nationalism (anywhere, but particularly in one of the world’s two superpowers). So yeah, I disagree with this author on a lot.
the American left has always, always supported American imperialism (wars, coups, sanctions).
Due respect, but you may wish to learn a little more about the history of the American left before you sound off like this. Both of the high points of American left power (post WWI and 1969) revolved around opposition to wars. Obviously I wish the American left had done a better job in opposing American imperialism, but the one thing you learn reading history is that there is always someone who is seeing the issue clearly at the time. I mean, there were even parliamentarians opposing British activities in India in the 18th century on what we would now call anti-imperialist grounds. The fact that they failed does not diminish the fact that they were right.
All “authoritarianism” smears against global south leaders can be traced back to the bullshit spouted by the “founding fathers” while they owned slaves. It’s a pseudo-religion which not even American leftists reject.
I hope you meet some actual American leftists someday. Founding fathers fetishism is the province of right wingers and people from Massachusetts, as far as I can tell.
