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26 Apr, 5 tweets, 2 min read
The author of the fake Deng quote showed up!

She called us "tankies" and condescended to us for exposing her reference-free academic malpractice. πŸ˜„

Congrats to all the people reproducing her falsehoods.

This is Western Marxist Academia. Image
I wrote about the role played by anticommunist academic gatekeepers here:
It's all a joke to these people. Image
communists: "This smear is academically dishonest, ahistorical, it destroys international solidarity, and is feeding sinophobia!"

Wark: "You're... uhhh... a cop?" Image
normal people when making a mistake: "damn, my bad. I'll retract and be more careful next time."

academic american propagandists when making a mistake: Image

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Roderic Day Profile picture
26 Apr
Read literally two paragraphs after the quoted excerpt.

As I keep pointing out:

"Ultra" leftists are literally just anarchists, the exact kind of Utopian Socialists that Engels is denouncing in this exact work.
marxists.org/archive/marx/w… Image
Read the condescension with which these worms in the imperial core refer to Chinese workers.

Their opinions are mere obstacles to Western "left" narratives in which they're expected to feature only as brainless victims waiting to be saved.
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"Poggers."

These really are absolutely detestable people.
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Roderic Day Profile picture
26 Apr
This is not a real quote by Deng Xiaoping.

It was literally invented by McKenzie Wark, radlib academic that teaches at the anti-communist "New School" in NYC, author of radlib works like "Gamer Theory" and "A Hacker Manifesto."

So, let's talk about fake quotations a bit.
Some people are taken aback that I call the New School anti-communist.

I use the word in the sense used by Michael Parenti in "Left Anticommunism: the unkindest cut," of utopian western "socialists" building careers out of denouncing Stalin and China.
greanvillepost.com/2018/10/06/lef…
Why yes, I read "theory."

How could you tell? Image
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Roderic Day Profile picture
26 Apr
I'm looking at the Wikiquote page for Deng Xiaoping.

There's only a handful of quotes! Let's see how they aged. Image
"It doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice." (1977)

Definitely a classic. Not much to say here.
"The United States brags about its political system, but the [American] President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves." (1987)

US "democracy" is such an embarrassment.
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Roderic Day Profile picture
31 Mar
Every newcomer to Marxism and communist history needs to understand that many of the current "gatekeepers" of Marxism in the West β€” historians, professors, and university students β€” are completely worthless careerists.

Check out this garbage on Wikipedia by Tristram Hunt: ImageImageImage
Marxism, or whatever else we call it, simply doesn't belong to these ghouls. It never has and it never will.

If you work β€” if you don't live off of rents β€” Marx and Engels and others were writing for *you*, and you don't need these anti-communist "interpreters." ImageImageImageImage
People like Hunt and Bessner go around embedding themselves into the conversation as middle-men, as ventriloquists and sheepdogs.

They de-fang the work or, worse, use it to smash international solidarity.

They are, frankly speaking, vicious counter-revolutionary pieces of shit.
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Roderic Day Profile picture
28 Mar
Another question for non-"tankie" followers:

Some people seem to believe that the US wouldn't dress up right wing propaganda points in Marxist terminology to push them onto communist circles, as if it a magic spell stopped them from lying this way.

Why? What's the logic here?
There's this strange reticence, as if someone writing down "capitalism bad" was a binding covenant, after which everything else written had to be sincere.

As if being a communist had magical properties one simply couldn't lie about (unless Chinese).
A slew of radlibs has tried to defend Byler on the basis that they absolutely love what he wrote for Chuang.

Can someone explain to me the appeal of regurgitating Falun Gong propaganda like this?
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26 Mar
People are DMing me about this extremely tedious thread of

"sources on Uyghurs oppression and concentration camps that cannot, by any sane person at least, be called western propaganda"

by @thecoleslaws

so I will really explain how they're western propaganda
"A powerful piece by Chinese communists"

The "Chinese communist" in question is Darren Byler, an American Kissinger Institute Fellow writing under "Adam Hunerven" to trick idiots.

This enemy of the Chinese State collaborates with the Canadian State.
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