Starting goals? Arguing Cuba isn't socialist, and China isn't socialist either.
Why, yes, they are an American Maoist. Why do you ask?
Here's a thread on Shining Path and "Gonzalo", the lunatic these people "uphold."
Assassinating Afro-Peruvian leaders, dynamiting the grave of the enacter of Land Reform, hanging dead dogs to lampposts with "Deng Xiaoping" written on placards.
"Raul Castro and Abimael Guzman are equally bad in opposite directions" is a bunch of bullshit, please don't try to argue that this guy has a measured take on this matter.
He's literally condescendingly talking down to a Cuban Socialist as an American Maoist.
I've spent a lot of effort defending Cuba and China from imperialist propaganda with detailed research, and explaining why the project of socialism in North America *requires* anti-imperialism.
This BRG guy is not my comrade. I don't care who he's friends with.
I hate how cliquey this site is.
"No, you don't understand! He's so cool, he's popular from way back, he's got a YT channel!"
That's nice. How about you tell him to STFU about Cuba and China, instead of asking me to be nicer?
I've written at length about how central the question of China's socialism is to my study of Marxism-Leninism.
Disagreement and discussion? Sure.
Flippant denunciations of China, especially from within the USA? 🚮
Their genocidal fascism is spilling over, and it's especially foul when served as puke-worthy liberal "analysis."
The notion that Xi Jinping is cynically scheming environmental 5-year plans just to play second fiddle to a goo-brained rapist like Joe Biden is just... 😂 😂 😂
Humour aside, though, it's literal Nazi logic.
"The scheming, calculating <insert group here> does not ever pursue virtue for its own ends, it's all shadowy plotting and scheming. They're trying to usurp the rightful place of our dear leaders, who truly are virtuous."
Soviets, Jewish people, Chinese people... you name it.
1) keep insisting art/entertainment should be spared political treatment,
2) react with endless whining if anyone dares challenge this directive,
suggests to me that it is a domain where capitalist hegemony is fragile and vulnerable.
Contrary to what a lot of "leave media alone, all that matters is your fleshy presence in the streets" people argue, revolutionaries like Lenin and Mao have historically treated art *extremely* seriously, as propaganda. redsails.org/mao-on-literat…
The idea that one can *uncritically* consume a White Supremacist Capitalist fantasy like "Breaking Bad" without it having any significant impact on their politics seems incorrect to me.
Exploring the background of randoms who volunteer bad posts online is fun.
Dissent Magazine, shameless anticommunists who cheered for the US Invasion of Afghanistan and backed US Regime Change operations in HK, fantasizes about Rosa being some kind of whiz-kid to Lenin's meanie.
It's all so petty, so high-school, so mired in projection and self-importance.
It may seem insignificant, but you can understand a lot about the utter and relentless failure of socialism in North America by paying attention to the attitude of people like these towards Lenin.
The self-satisfied and completely unearned sense of superiority is well-reflected in the guy's TL—Rosa-over-Lenin finds a home amid Ed Markey and Ezra Klein RTs.
🏴: USSR Authoritarian Totalitarian State Capitalist Gulag Red Tsar Chernobyl 80 Million Dead
me: what's your source?
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Anne Applebaum is a guttering example of how far you can go in capitalism if you're completely shameless and willing to say exactly what powerful people want to hear.