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  • Flyberius [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    They do actually allow protests. Western media was having a fucking field day earlier this year talking about how China had bowed to pressure from protests regarding their covid policy.

    Jesus titty fucking H Christ…

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      1 year ago

      You mean the revolt that happened after people burned to death in their own homes when the state locked them in? The revolt that state censors still tried to remove from the internet? The one police cracked down on?

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        1 year ago

        During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them.

      • China has protests against covid policy that saved millions of lives, the government listens to and adjusts policy accordingly

        western chauvinist: omg look at this revolt, proof that China is ebil!! im such a smart redditor!

        amerika has protests against the police killing people for being black, government responds by vilifying protestors and ramping up police violence

        western chauvinist: they’re rioting! they’re destroying their cities! omg we need cops to put them in their place!

  • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Is this trying to say people who support the most successful AES state and largest democracy in the world are not real marxists, but people who just believe western propoganda with rascist characteristics are the true marxists?