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Everything belongs to the workers (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 2 points 5 months ago (6 children)

I think you're reading more into my position than I have stated myself. I understand that Mao was not innocent within the split, neither were the soviets. That's why I have stated that the split was a tragedy and should have been avoided had both sides statesmen been competent enough.

As for statistics on wealth over time, you can even see western articles framing this crackdown in "scary language." The trend is gradual, but it isn't nonexistent either.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (5 children)

    I think you’re reading more into my position than I have stated myself.

    Yes, Comrade, you’re right. It’s a very painful subject for me.

    To me, this is just like Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, a work that slandered and humiliated the entire Soviet ideology. Both have fostered a distorted view of the Soviet era. They have given rise to all sorts of false theories that are published and circulated worldwide on a massive scale.

    Yet the Soviet soul is all I have left in life now. I am being bombed every night, but I live in the past—I live on memories...

    As for statistics on wealth over time, you can even see western articles framing this crackdown in “scary language.” The trend is gradual, but it isn’t nonexistent either.

    Ma crossed a red line; Xi decided that the oligarchs were becoming a threat to him... though he seems to have realized this rather late.

    We can certainly see Ma’s attempt to meddle in state affairs. People used to tell me that China has no oligarchs because Chinese billionaires don't interfere in government business. Yet, I highly doubt that was the first time Ma had meddled in state affairs—after all, he is a long-standing Communist Party member.

    To be honest, Comrade, what is actually happening in China is a closely guarded secret.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Again, I think you're reading the situation through pessimistic hermeneutics, seeing what isn't actually there as present based on pessimism.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (3 children)

    That’s an interesting way to put it. Are you referring to Cervantes and the windmills?

    My subjective pessimism stems from the fact that I’ve lost faith in my own future—my personal future. It’s just that, due to certain circumstances, I reached a point where I lost hope for what lies ahead. I’ve come to terms with that now.

    As for objective pessimism, that has nothing to do with my personal outlook. If you like, you could call it dialectics in its most extreme form... )))))

    But seriously, Comrade, when was the last time you saw someone looking toward humanity's future with confidence and optimism—without any illusions?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I'm referring to someone whose own pessimism causes them to see negativity where there is no actual basis for it. Your mind fills in the blanks, so to speak. Nobody is immune to this, I am an optimist, a revolutionary optimist. I have to hold onto hope to move forward, and do my best to temper that with sober and grounded analysis. Optimism is a revolutionary feeling, pessimism leads to nihilism.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    I’m referring to someone whose own pessimism causes them to see negativity where there is no actual basis for it.

    Yes, you described that guy accurately. And that’s hardly surprising, because in this world, he has no choice but to be a sociopath.

    As for the idea that I might be talking nonsense—that’s unlikely; I have far too much practical life experience to spout complete rubbish. I’ve clawed my way to the top three times in my life, only to hit rock bottom again. Right now, I’m at the bottom once more. Would you be an optimist if you were in my shoes, Comrade? ... ))) And please, don’t tell me that I’m the one to blame for it all, rather than the way life is set up!

    I am an optimist, a revolutionary optimist.

    You just got lucky, Comrade! I'm happy for you.

    I was just like that once, too.

    I have to hold onto hope to move forward, and do my best to temper that with sober and grounded analysis.

    Yes, it's Dostoevsky: The most terrible thing is when a person has nowhere to go. This quote reflects one of Fyodor Dostoevsky's most haunting themes: the crushing despair of total alienation and the human necessity for purpose.

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