You’re right. A lot of people in China would probably disagree with me. But a lot of people in China lack the basic critical thinking skills to even question their circumstances, because secondary schools (if you even have the means to attend one) don’t like students who ask too many questions.
A lot of people in the US would also disagree with me politically, because they think they were chosen by Jesus to oppress brown people and spread glorious capitalism around the world. But that doesn’t make them right either.
I am a Marxist. I’ve done my homework. What do you want me to do, start quoting Zizek or Gramsci to pass your shitty litmus test?
China is an experiment in socialism gone awry, because like the rest of the world, those with power lust over capital. I lived in a T3 city in China where things were relatively quiet, but flew out to visit a friend way down in Shenzhen periodically. It’s hard to see billionaire kids racing their Ferraris down the street there while the poor masses look down from the windows of their destitute coffin house apartments and think that this is somehow a socialist success story.
China is as capital-driven as any other world power. The government just likes to participate in it a bit more directly.
But sure, you’re the expert, not me, so I’m sure this is all just capitalist propaganda intended to denounce great Mao zhuxi and sabotage the workers’ revolution.
That’s some racist shit buddy. People in China lack basic critical skills to question their circumstances, it takes a white savior to tell them what’s up. Do you even listen to yourself? You’d not a Marxist, you’re a racist.
If that’s how you choose to read into my comment, there’s no helping you.
Why would you even assume I’m white? Do you think I just moved to China on a whim? All Chinese people have to be born in China and nowhere else?
Fuck this.
There is no other way to read your comment. You’re claiming that you understand China better than people who actually live there while claiming they lack “critical thinking skills” that evidently you believe yourself to possess. If you can’t understand how unhinged that sounds what else is there to tell you.
Why would I assume that you’re white? Because that’s the typical narrative white American and European racists use, and if you’re not white and you’ve internalized this narrative then there is truly no helping you.
Fuck this indeed.
