One month ban for pointing out that consumerism bad. What a shithole of a site over there on the grad.
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If you live in China then by all means go ahead and criticize China's relationship to production, though it is probably more productive to so that on platforms that have a majority Chinese userbase rather than lemmygrad and Hexbear
If you live in the Weϟϟt, then shut the fuck up about China's imperfections. Every demonization of a country which the Weϟϟt has set its sights on helps oil the imperialists' guns.
Even if you also criticize the terrible crimes of the West much more harshly, China is exempt from even the lightest criticism 👍
You posted a single contextless image to complain about our comrades over on grad banning you. From what I see in the image, you first come in hot and have nothing of value to say (comment 1) and then exhibit much vitriol toward a country my genocidal leaders want me to fear and hate (comment 2) for a a sin that is not unique to China, then wonder why people treat you with suspicion.
If you wanted to have a discussion about wasteful production you could have done that and talked about the economic context (global capitalism) in which China exists, as well as China's long term strategies.
I don't really care what you have to say. I don't care about "consumerism" in China. Why do you? Imperialism is the primary contradiction.
I wrote my first comment out of frustration after writing out a whole comment and then deleting it because it was more effort than it was worth. And then I ended up needing to write basically the comment out again in the reply.
And it's not consumerism in China that's the problem. It's consumerism in America that's the problem, obviously, because China and particularly Shein is manufacturing for export. China is serving a market need, and I think they are uniquely poised to exploit their position to serve this need in a way nobody else is. The West provides the incentive, China capitalizes on it. But quite frankly at this point it would be incredibly tiring to write out a nuanced take with enough caveats, counter criticism of the west, and sugarcoating to appease the dogmatists who take any criticism of China as evidence of liberalism.
I'm going to touch grass and I think so should y'all, because you can't be nuanced without writing a whole dissertation here ig.
Shein is manufacturing the same way amazon does. It is a market platform.
Like, don't get me wrong, the imperialist machine is absolutely trying to tear down China through criticism among other things, but are we as Communists not allowed to discuss what we could do differently, not for the purposes of improving China, but for the purposes of honing our own goals and methods? Or is learning from the mistakes of others only allowed after Gorbachev dissolves them?
We are allowed to, sure. I don't see you doing that in your screenshot.
I don't see how I'm not
And I know what the reply is going to be, "build a successful revolution, then you can discuss what to do."
Overthrow the government and then figure out what you want to do seems like putting the cart before the horse.
Motherfucker that's not what my reply was. Don't put words in my beak
That was not aimed at you directly