Which is why you should support China, as a recent Harvard Kennedy School survey found that over 93% of the Chinese people are satisfied with their central government.
https://ash.harvard.edu/files/ash/files/final_policy_brief_7.6.2020.pdf See page 3
Facts don’t care about your feelings
A good comrade once told me many years ago that when you have to make excuses for a country having a billionaire class, then you’ll go as far as to defend them with anything until it’s literally capitalism in all but name only.
This site has a seriously unhealthy obsession with China. They are not communist. They are not socialist. Nor are they going to save you when collapse happens in the US.
Ok and?
Support for a government tells us nothing about what class it serves or about the material conditions of society.
Conversely does that mean we should stop supporting a state when its population is opposed to it? Even when it is socialist?
ok so the material conditions are: massive wage growth and severe poverty has almost been eliminated while being the only country with extensive high speed rail.
considering the fact that 100 years ago china was being pillaged by warlords, civil war, the japanese, global imperialism, and had a similar development index to africa, they’re doing quite good for themselves.
Then why not support them base off of that rather than one statistic that by itself tells us absolutely nothing.
This isn’t an effort post where I’m trying to compile every possible reason for why you should support China. It’s just an easy counter to the prevailing perception of China within the West (and among many western leftists) that China is a hellstate where everybody lives in daily fear of their repressive government.
I’m mostly making fun of the tendency of liberals to respond to any solidarity of Communists in the Global North with the Global South by saying “Oh, only privileged white leftists could possibly support the evil Maduoro/Xi/Morales/etc. regime, the real people of those countries YEARN to be free”.
And it’s wrong to say that public approval in their government tells us nothing, propaganda exists, but it can’t make people not recognize if their lives are shit, and staying shit. After all the U.S has the most sophisticated propaganda structure, and yet public faith in Government is consistently low, and most Americans surveyed have little hope in the future.
How concerned with socialism is the average person in china?
More than the average person in any NATO country. The CPC membership numbers are proof enough
Indeed. Next let’s poll how most Americans feels about capitalism!
How about we ask the Maoists in Nepal and the Philippines what they think of the CCP
Here’s an English language Nepalese communist newspage If you’re interested in seeing their views with regard to China.
https://leftreviewonline.com/english/
They’re overwhelmingly supportive of the PRC, and their lead editor is a former Committee member in the Maoist Communist Party of Nepal.
Thanks seems like a good resource
I especially liked these left boomer comics https://leftreviewonline.com/english/cartoon/distracting-attention.html/attachment/us-election-poll-leftreviewonline
We love our Boomer Commie comics don’t we folks?
