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.
Capital and its lackeys never moved an inch past Kennan, and that's saying something:
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.
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.