The retreat of the Chinese left to more a more parochial and national direction is in part mis-attributed to state cooptation by arrogant and deluded Westerners who refuse to accept the legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party because they have arrogated to themselves as the
only arbiter of political validity by virtue of magic. The other perhaps more critical factor is the complete disintegration and emasculation of the international left outside of a few Communist die hards. The post Cold War political environment has seen the left atrophy and die
with it's corpse eaten away by neoliberal vultures. The farce that is nu-labor isn't singular, but has been replicated in practically every Western state. The original mission, of workers protection and anti imperialism having been abandoned in the face of overwhelming American
hegemonic power and reduced to immigration inundation to serve capitalist power, deviancy normalization to distract from capitalist power by shifting the locus of debate, and fucking pronouns to cap it all of because why the fuck not? Western Marxism, in the Chinese view has
detached itself from state and society and has become, like some esoteric religious movement, a fundamentally useless that parasitizes revolutionary energies and harmlessly disperses them into the aether. The international Left that comprises the mainstream is a talk shop of
of status climbing careerist, US state-owned blue checks, google employees, and various flavours of pervert. If it were actually ruled by a shadowy Jew conspiracy, it would be an improvement because at least then it would actually amount to something with capable schemers in
control. Why would anyone, Chinese or not, choose to forego using the powerful tool at hand, an organizationally cohesive Leninist Party 90 million strong, to get results in favor of ideological alignment with a bunch of international transgender clowns?

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