• Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    Yes it is. Your failure to understand China’s structure and its goals is a personal failure on your part to seek that information, the information is out there.

    I recommend reading this article, from Vijay Prashad’s organisation the Tricontinental Institute. It will give you a good run down on China’s movement through stages of production and its current goals. If you want to argue Vijay Prashad and his organisation are not leftist you’ll have to take that up with Noam Chomsky as well since they work together on practically everything now.

    If reading is too much for you (I suspect it is or you wouldn’t hold this opinion) then here is a very brief video by Professor Richard Wolff where he cites China as responsible for the globally rising interest in marxism.

    If alternatively your position is that marxism is not leftist, you are a right wing clown and politically illiterate.

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      I am not near left or right, a 1 line axis is not enough to put all the political positions into account.

      After reading the first link, socialism is kindof interesting at its core, but in china you have a person that controls eveything, China is a totalitarian state capitalist system. While Socialism would give people freedom, China is doing the opposite. I am not fully invested into this topic but you can’t tell me that stealing Money from bank accounts, allowing companies to do stupid investments that will become waste just to rise some numbers. Generally forbiding the fact that you have issues (disabled) or are different (religion or sexuality) is really just showing how similar this is to Hitlers time.

      In Germany we have the Bundestag and its neither leftist or rightist as you elect the group you like which can be left-ist or right-ist, a group of multiple groups will be build for the few years that have together 50%. So if there is onr far-right group or far-left one, they won’t be able to actually do all the harm except people elect that group 50%.

      Besides having every few years either same or slight different groups that regime, there is also the Grundgesetz which protect the Human rights at its core and is not changable except all 2 buildings and 1 person allow for this. With this, everthing should be possible while having freedom.

      But for China I really don’t know what is the right thing. Its no different than America with capitalism at many levels because both intoxicate the human rights and nature environment. Somethinf like a Bundestag for China doesn’t seem like a great idea if it would be the main thing, because China wants to grow and the Bundestag is too slow for direct and instant changes. But without, you can see corruption at many corners in China.

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          I guess you missed the point that one person has the decision to control everything, of course there will be different groups controlling the details, but this is the person who is able to change. Just saying that I should read is pretty much stupid to say, you also just could say nothing, the message would be equal.

          But i just gonna be you for a moment: If you do not believe this, you need to do a lot more reading.

          Just send me your articles or whatever to justify whatever you mean and don’t be a dick.

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                How did you come to the conclusion that one person has the decision to control everything in China, an arrangement that has never existed anywhere in history, even actual non democratic dictatorships (which China isn’t)

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            I guess you missed the point that one person has the decision to control everything

            No, he’s saying you’re wrong (and you are). In China there isn’t one person who controls everything. They have millions of elected officials, you don’t have any clue what you’re talking about.

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        I am not near left or right

        So you are ignorant. Its ok we have all been there. To live is to learn. I would have an essay very similar to yours a couple years ago. Then I started doing some reading.

        Essentially leftism v rightism boils down to either you think people all all equals and should be treated equally regardless or you believe some people are superior to others and should get to treat others as lesser. Its simple as that.

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          If you say something is simple, then you are actually ignorant, literally. Its like saying: “There are only white and black people, simple as that.”

          Politics is way more complex and diverse, if you are only able to think in one direction then just don reply to me wtf.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_spectrum

          You also said “Its ok” and included that “all” have been there but its only you and the bubble community you live in like you are some superior peace of ****

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            Politics is way more complex and diverse, if you are only able to think in one direction then just don reply to me wtf.

            unironically links political spectrum

            Bruh

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              It explains that there are multiple positions besides left and right. It explainst that its not just a left or right

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            If you say something is simple, then you are actually ignorant,

            I didn’t say all of politics is simple. I said right vs Left is simple. Its an classification system made for the sole purpose of making a complex thing simple.

            Its like you are getting hostile at me for saying “using google translate is simple” and saying “Translation is super hard. Learning a new language takes years and even then the subtleties of idioms and the nuance of culture play a significant role in how people speak. bridging the gap between two languages is super complex”

            You also said “Its ok” and included that “all” have been there but its only you and the bubble community you live in like you are some superior peace of ****

            I’m sorry if my tone came off as condescending but is Understanding not superior to ignorance? Ignorance is a natural state. We naturally transition from ignorance into understanding on many subjects through out our lives. There is no shame in that. clinging to ignorance however is shameful. Realizing you are ignorant is the first step to understanding. The next step is finding more information. I was just trying to encourage you. No need to be so defensive.

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              The part that you see me ignorant is the problem. Just because I don’t believe in socialism or capitalism or left vs right doesn’t mean I am ignorant. You somehow had an exam about leftism and rightism which did not include more standpoints because your exam topic was just left vs right. It feels like you are literally stuck in this one knowledge and can’t accept other statements. Its also called Dunning Kruger effect.

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                Just because I don’t believe in socialism or capitalism or left vs right doesn’t mean I am ignorant.

                Just because you don’t believe in something doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. You live in a world where the right left political spectrum exists and you exist on that spectrum whether you know it or not. If there was a classification system for how spicy people like their food and someone called you a “spice chungus” your ignorance to the term and rankling scale would not change the level of spice you like or the fact that that has the name “spice chungus.”

                You seem hung up on the word ignorant. I’m not trying to say you are stupid. I’m not saying you are ignorant in general. I’m just saying you seem to be ignorant of Politics. Ignorance is the state of not knowing. It does have a negative connotation but that is just because Knowing things is more is generally regarded as better than not knowing things.

                Knowing that you don’t know is a good place to start but only if you try to learn more. Again I am just trying to encourage you to learn more.