I don’t think the problem is the disintegration of the family though.
It’s sort of funny how universal that social conservative analysis is worldwide, though. Everything revolves around “the family”.
Posting an article that echoes a narrative I have observed on Twitter, just to see what people think.
Inb4 “OMG this article is so Sinophobic, it takes all sorts of things about modern China and makes them look worse than they are” - I knooooow. Try to shrug that off if you can.
echoes a narrative I have observed on Twitter
Please, no. Twitter discourse is painfully bad.
In any case, it’s a shit article. Trying to cast one guy (out of 7) in the Politburo Standing Committee with some shitty opinions as shadow-dictator of all policy for 30 years is clear nonsense.
So he is one of sources of that neo-conservatism, fuck him then. Also, lmao: pay below reproduction rate - how can workers not reproduce themselves, quite a mystery, we must change culture
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.
