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Enrolled in a class on Chinese politics and the first lecture was so unbelievably chock-full of lib talking points. Some that I can recall:

  • calling China a "closed autocracy" and "authoritarian"
  • mentioned that when surveyed, Chinese people rate the level of democracy in their country higher than Americans do for theirs, but with the caveat that they could be under "censorship"
  • showed the "democracy map" that's just this international-community-1 international-community-2 and of course China is lowly rated on the democracy scale
  • showed this chart that was literally like "Stalin and Mao killed more people than Hitler!!!" lenin-dont-laugh

There was also language about how the Core Socialist Values get "hammered" into people's heads in China, which definitely doesn't happen in the free West sans-troll

Might be a long semester if I stay in this course cringe

Edit: class has been dropped kel-bliss

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Fascism is basically a cancerous outgrowth of the old socialist movement.

Lassalle, Bernstein and co push for reforms within capitalism instead of revolution, the demand to abolish the present state of things is sidelined or even got rid of, and claas collaborationism becomes seen as desirable.

If you only ally with the bourgeoisie, you can get "a healthy mix" where you get the best of capitalism and the best of socialism!

During WW1 some realized, who cares about that reform stuff! What unites "us" is our glorious nation! It's definitely more important than social reform (some say it's even harmful to our interests!)

At all steps of the way, the most important thing is that you prevent communists from getting influential. They're harmful to the success of the program after all, and they scare off the bourgeois.

How much violence you use is up to you!