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[–] 68 points 6 months ago (9 children)

My god the comments. You are perfectly allowed to not know much about a country. I don't know about PRC either. But I know to keep my mouth shut on matters I don't know about. I don't go on parroting propaganda for those things.

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  • [+] -17 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    It's all about geography , if China was on the map like Australia or more like the US they wouldn't have any problems if they had plenty of space and no neighbors.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago* (3 children)

    What no political theory does to a mf

    Geographical environment is unquestionably one of the constant and indispensable conditions of development of society and, of course, influences the development of society, accelerates or removed its development. But its influence is not the determining influence, inasmuch as the changes and development of society proceed at an incomparably faster rate than the changes and development of geographical environment. in the space of 3000 years three different social systems have been successively superseded in Europe: the primitive communal system, the slave system and the feudal system. In the eastern part of Europe, in the U.S.S.R., even four social systems have been superseded. Yet during this period geographical conditions in Europe have either not changed at all, or have changed so slightly that geography takes no note of them. And that is quite natural. Changes in geographical environment of any importance require millions of years, whereas a few hundred or a couple of thousand years are enough for even very important changes in the system of human society.

    It follows from this that geographical environment cannot be the chief cause, the determining cause of social development; for that which remains almost unchanged in the course of tens of thousands of years cannot be the chief cause of development of that which undergoes fundamental changes in the course of a few hundred years

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    in the space of 3000 years three different social systems have been successively superseded in Europe: the primitive communal system, the slave system and the feudal system.

    this is talking about the romans right?

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    Can't understand what you're saying. Can you elaborate? The propaganda against China is not coming from its neighbours as far as I know.

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  • [–] 36 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Westerners today have so much in common with their inquisition and crusades predecessors. They replaced Christianity with Western Liberalism and they fight for it with the same zeal. Either you adopt their values and systems or you are an evil heathen who must be destroyed.

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  • [–] [S] 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    There's an interesting blog that analyzes the transition of political economy from medieval europe to the rise of capital through a perspective of the mechanics of occult practices. It's pretty well thought out and compares church occult practices and their relations to "capital occultism" via social relations and rituals.

    This post is about how money aka capital is transmuted to embody commodified labor value in a similar structure of social relations ("occult magic") as the holy cracker being consecrated and transmuted to embody the flesh of Jesus Christ.

    https://ianwrightsite.wordpress.com/2021/11/25/dark-eucharist-of-the-real-god/

    The previous post is also quite good that covers the concept of Marx's "real god" that is manifested via the capital imperative to continuously increase profit and accumulation.

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  • [–] 19 points 6 months ago (15 children)

    If, over the next 10 years, your country became more and more like China, would you go along with the changes? Would you have any problems with the transformation?

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  • [–] [S] 28 points 6 months ago (13 children)
    • modern electricity grid quickly moving away from fossil fuels
    • high speed train network
    • cheap fresh produce
    • affordable housing
    • transitioning to socialism via the development of productive forces
    • strong investment in education and R&D
    • quickly advancing tech in almost every sector that matters
    • people-directed governance that is not subservient to capital (foreign or domestic)
    • very low crime
    • ecological restoration that won't get cancelled by the next elected administration
    • cheap and good quality healthcare
    • bold long term vision and consistent achievement of it over time

    objectively better than just about any other place

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    They’ve been around, as a civilization, for over 5,000 years. I’d like to think you don’t make it that long without doing a thing or 2 right.

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  • [+] -15 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Eh. The US has been around just as long as a civilization. If the Chinese get to claim credit for the radically different ancient predecessors to modern China, then the US can claim decent from both the ancient Native American civilizations as well as the ancient Middle Eastern civilizations that are ultimately the predecessors of many countries such as the US.

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  • [–] 18 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    The US has been around just as long as a civilization. If the Chinese get to claim credit for the radically different ancient predecessors to modern China, then the US can claim decent from both the ancient Native American civilizations

    The US is a settler colonial project that carried out an extermination campaign and genocide of hundreds of native tribes, and stole their land. Settlers have no right to claim descent from the people (they're still) trying to exterminate. Unlike South America, there's not even a genetic heritage; the US colonialist just killed every indigenous person they found, or put them into reservations.

    Neither the PRC nor most ME countries are settler ones. The number of settler-colonial countries is tiny: the US, Canada, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, are the main ones.

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  • [–] -4 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    The education is also non-competitive and crippling for the not-so-gifted students, yes?

    Because I don't hear about many student suicides (specifically due to stress and pressure) outside of the Asian countries.

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 6 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] -4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I specifically mentioned Asian and including China.
    So...Please give me now a comparison to western societies like EU countries (or US if it easier to find statistics)

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)
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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    I really don't know what it's like in China because I've never been there. I know some people who are from China but they've never really talked about anything other than visiting their families. All I hear comes from the US propaganda machine, so I can't really have an informed opinion. This is probably how it should be for like 95% of Americans. We don't need to have an opinion about everything ffs.

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  • [+] 11 points 6 months ago (1 child)
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    I think a lot of what I hear from western media is communism fear mongering propaganda. But I also think that there are kernels of truth in some of it. China is a large country that I have no doubt is doing a lot of good stuff and a lot of awful stuff. Just like the USA does good stuff and awful stuff.

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  • [–] 30 points 6 months ago

    Oh no! You've poked the liberal hive now LMBO

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  • [–] 17 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    All states are bad, but if we're talking about which ones are arguably better or worse on the world stage...

    "USA USA USA, WE'RE NUMBER 1!"

    Proudly colonizing for 250 years?

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  • [+] -6 points 6 months ago

    Power for things like colonizing is the best indicator of a successful state. End state power. I like that the original was intended as a slight against anarchists. States keep projecting that vertical energy.

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  • [+] -11 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Seems to be what people do. America isn’t the first or the only one. People are shit is that your argument?

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