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flabberjabber@lemmy.world 5 days agoI have no horse in the colonial race.
But you do, your post history is entirely pro China. Each article you’ve chosen is limited in scope, looks at only small details; whereas I’m coming at this from a contextual point of view. Why are you trying to pretend you haven’t cherry picked your references to suit your political leanings? It’s baffling.
Also, Marxist-Leninist fits, thanks for your honesty. I’m with Lenin, up until he calls for a continuous revolution against all political opponents: that’s the point at which a righteous revolution turns into tyranny.
From my point of view, colonialism regardless of the flavour of it, serves only to impoverish and destroy the lives of a large number of working people. Its the opposite of what true communism should look like.
Despite this, I actually gave China a tiny bit more credit because at least they’re building infrastructure, the USA wouldn’t have done that historically. Even if that infrastructure is a debt slavery trap.
You’re welcome to think of me as loving the USA though. From where I’m sitting tonight that’s given me such a chuckle.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
The key issue here is that China isn’t a colonizing country. It’s not because I’m cherry-picking, it’s because it simply doesn’t fit into the category of colonialism or neocolonialism, or imperialism. I agree with you in saying that colonialism only serves to impoverish and destroy the lives of a large number of working people, that’s why when we analyze how BRI has lifted 40 million people out of poverty, thousands of infrastructure projects, and tens of billions in bilateral trade, this is delivering entirely different results from how the west treats the global south.
Secondly, I want to address the idea of “true communism.” Communism is not a mythological, holy form of being, it’s the process of bringing about the communist mode of production and distribution through socialism, the transition between capitalism and communism. It isn’t some religious or moral creed, but a material mode of production. Socialism in real life has warts, problems, and struggles, just like any existing system does, yet only countries building socialism seem to be held to this sense of religious purity by westerners.
Finally, regarding Lenin. Lenin’s calls for revolution against imperialism, colonialism, and the capitalist class to bring about socialism isn’t tyrannical at all, except from the perspective of imperialists, colonizers, and capitalists. Without class analysis, we ignore that the flipside is the existing tyranny of the imperialists, colonizers, and capitalists. Trading the dictatorship of the few over the many to the dictatorship of the many over the few who had absolute power in the prior system is the same way capitalism was brought about from feudalism, and is a natural human progression.
I talk about communism and socialism a lot. I care deeply about organizing for a better world, and I enjoy discussing it with others. That’s it.