• BrainInABox@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    3 hours ago

    Yeah, but they don’t consider those 90 million people to be independent humans equal to themselves; just a poorly defined mass of ant like others.

  • pineapple@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    4 hours ago

    Are there ANY leftist orgs that follow trotsky/western marxist ideology in china (or just outside of the west in general)? Trotsky orgs really do seam to be a “we will save the chinese working class” who have already saved themselves.

  • NewDark@lemmy.today
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    16
    ·
    20 hours ago

    While I basically agree with the sentiment… X large number of people believe Y isn’t as strong of an argument you think it is.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      10
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      19 hours ago

      Context matters, when it comes to objective facts, a bunch of people thinking something is true doesn’t make it so. However, when it comes to subjective experience, then the opinions of people actually living in the country do matter far more than those of the outsiders.

  • DudleyMason@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    8
    ·
    18 hours ago

    But Xi hasn’t pushed the magic “Communism” button to skip all the intermediate steps and create a moneyless, classless society, so obviously this means he’s just evil Redfash. Checkmate, Tankie!

    /S (I wish that went without saying, but here we are)