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Communist auto-phobia strikes again

Edit: I mean, I suffer from it too. Don’t want to say it like this isn’t something a lot of us suffer from

Hey, is Maduro’s wife actually being charged with anything? Or is she just being held because ??? Obviously the entire situation is bad but I feel especially bad for her.

1. On second thought, perhaps he shouldn’t be placed as a “Maoist.” Honestly he’s very vague on what his ideological throughline is, but it’s not Maoism.

2. He’s not the worst person ever, I should point out. I wouldn’t trust him too much, but he’s certainly better than a lot of people

3. 1dime is a bit of an idealist sometimes [which might explain the lack of ideological throughline.] For example, his video on the cultural revolution handwaved away explanations about how certain structures would be good beyond them sounding socialist.

4. He tries to do that thing that western leftists do where they try to make a direct ideological connection between enlightenment thinkers [Nietchze, Voltaire, etc.] And marxist ones [directly or indirectly saying marxism is a continuation of the enlightenment]. This, in my opinion at least, is a very baby leftist take that I struggled with in my first years. It’s not a horrible thing to think necessarily, but 1dime has obviously been a marxist for longer than I have, so it’s concerning he is making what is quite literally a Vaush level take at this point.

5.Speaking of Vaush level takes, he believes China is imperialist and capitalist, says there’s a genocide(?) In xinjiang and that the CPC is using “Bush Era tactics” on Uygers [I for one wish I got the same treatment as Uygers in China, considering they have gotten more prosperous], constantly plainly throws out bangers like “Stalin had dictatorial power and called all of his opponents Kulaks” (note: he doesn’t actually try to argue this, he simply throws this out as a truism. This is one of the reasons i get a little angry with him, as truisims like that are my least favorite form of argumentation), and other such things you can find on his Twitter and videos and such.

I think he’s less Hasan and more black redguard/onedime. He’s not going “ohh we don’t like Maduro cause otherwise liberals will dismiss us.” Hes just a Maoist.

I stopped taking his modern views seriously after his stuff with Syria.

I think honestly him and a lot of people who do work like him are just…stuck in the past. It sucks, honestly, because of how important connecting those topics of history to present day circumstances is. But unfortunately people like him, onedime, just get stuck back there for some goddamn reason.

I can’t speak for other people, but i feel like my attention span is really [for lack of a better term] bipolar. Either ill be able to sit down and read or work on or watch or play something for half a day and not even consider getting up to get water, or I’ll sit down and immediately want to do anything else. Part of it is just how much fun I’m having, of course, but even when I’m working on my physics hw for college I can usually do that without a problem, but other work will make me want to get up instantly, even if it is no where near as complex or demanding

Cheng Enfu is a CPC economist and director of the Chinese academy of marxism who translates a lot of his stuff into English [in fact i think he does so himself if i remember right]. I’ve only read “China’s Economic Dialectic: The original aspirations of reform” so far, but he also has a couple textbooks titled “Modern Political Economy; a new coursebook” and “the creation of value by living labor.” China’s Economic Dialectic is available from international publishers while the course books are available from Canut Press, so luckily you don’t have to use Amazon for him.

Edit: Springer also publishes a series of textbooks called “China Insights.” I haven’t read them yet, but they’re written and translated by Chinese authors which is definitely nice compared to what you usually get. Springer gives institutional access, but all [or at least some of the books] are available on sci-hub.

That’s fair.

I think probably starting off with an example could help, with people unfamiliar with that type of crowd. It’s not like “oh my god i cannot believe the author would do that” thing, but probably would clarify a bit.