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7/22/2025, 9:06:48 PM
>>24564208
>he went to the USA to see it for himself and was disgusted and then wrote America Against America
He was appalled by some things (particularly the racism) but intrigued and impressed by other things. It's interesting to read because a Chinese guy traveling to the U.S. in the 1980s was really a fish out of water, but he was impressed by Colonial Williamsburg "living history" exhibitions where some guy is like "hello kids, I am George Washington," which he thought was a good thing. Now China does that with their own history to encourage "red tourism." He also thought the U.S. allowed for radically different people to co-exist in the same country after visiting the Amish. He also ran into a Trotskyist pamphleteer in New York who was being completely ignored. He saw the Communist Manifesto on the table and was like oh, hey, that's us and then had a friendly debate with the Trot girl about whether China was actually socialist.
>>24567986
>As weird as it sounds Confucianism is probably exactly what Marxism needed to balance itself out ... Kind of ironic considering how Mao
I think there were reasons for that. A lot of patriarchial stuff in Confucius, and Mao was a big women respecter. But there's also emphasis on humaneness and benevolence, and also the ritual (and political ritual). It's a set of ritual that holds a society together more than any system of law. The truly "ren" (or truly human person) is someone who performs the ritual in a way that is paradoxically both perfectly rehearsed, but also effortless and spontaneous, and beautiful. He believed that music, when performed correctly, could inspire positive emotions, foster unity, and contribute to a well-ordered society. I think that ethic runs through a lot of Chinese government propaganda demonstrations and military parades:
https://youtu.be/L7i1LY441Hs
>>24570674
>Xi gang is more of a centrist, ‘pragmatist’ as they like to larp, than a ‘left’ faction of the CCP ... The practical reality of Chinese politics is that you have to go to a lot of shitty banquet dinners and also go to the right university
Yep.
>>24570964
>CPC publication/communication semiotics is actually interesting as fuck and severely underrated.
http://www.qstheory.cn/
>>24571375
>"We're the Middle Kingdom, fuck you. We were the center of the world for 8000 years."
I think that was a big reason for the Sino-Soviet split. The USSR had a complex that they were the leaders of socialism, but the Chinese weren't going to be like "oh okay that makes you the center of the world now."
>>24571500
>China doesn't have any allies or reliable partners with which it shares mutual affinity and part of that is China's alienating foreign policy.
China doesn't really "do" alliances. Conversely, you won't see them try to fight the entire West at the same time like Russia. They will try to reach out to France as a check on the U.S., or develop ties with New Zealand as a hedge on Australia.
>he went to the USA to see it for himself and was disgusted and then wrote America Against America
He was appalled by some things (particularly the racism) but intrigued and impressed by other things. It's interesting to read because a Chinese guy traveling to the U.S. in the 1980s was really a fish out of water, but he was impressed by Colonial Williamsburg "living history" exhibitions where some guy is like "hello kids, I am George Washington," which he thought was a good thing. Now China does that with their own history to encourage "red tourism." He also thought the U.S. allowed for radically different people to co-exist in the same country after visiting the Amish. He also ran into a Trotskyist pamphleteer in New York who was being completely ignored. He saw the Communist Manifesto on the table and was like oh, hey, that's us and then had a friendly debate with the Trot girl about whether China was actually socialist.
>>24567986
>As weird as it sounds Confucianism is probably exactly what Marxism needed to balance itself out ... Kind of ironic considering how Mao
I think there were reasons for that. A lot of patriarchial stuff in Confucius, and Mao was a big women respecter. But there's also emphasis on humaneness and benevolence, and also the ritual (and political ritual). It's a set of ritual that holds a society together more than any system of law. The truly "ren" (or truly human person) is someone who performs the ritual in a way that is paradoxically both perfectly rehearsed, but also effortless and spontaneous, and beautiful. He believed that music, when performed correctly, could inspire positive emotions, foster unity, and contribute to a well-ordered society. I think that ethic runs through a lot of Chinese government propaganda demonstrations and military parades:
https://youtu.be/L7i1LY441Hs
>>24570674
>Xi gang is more of a centrist, ‘pragmatist’ as they like to larp, than a ‘left’ faction of the CCP ... The practical reality of Chinese politics is that you have to go to a lot of shitty banquet dinners and also go to the right university
Yep.
>>24570964
>CPC publication/communication semiotics is actually interesting as fuck and severely underrated.
http://www.qstheory.cn/
>>24571375
>"We're the Middle Kingdom, fuck you. We were the center of the world for 8000 years."
I think that was a big reason for the Sino-Soviet split. The USSR had a complex that they were the leaders of socialism, but the Chinese weren't going to be like "oh okay that makes you the center of the world now."
>>24571500
>China doesn't have any allies or reliable partners with which it shares mutual affinity and part of that is China's alienating foreign policy.
China doesn't really "do" alliances. Conversely, you won't see them try to fight the entire West at the same time like Russia. They will try to reach out to France as a check on the U.S., or develop ties with New Zealand as a hedge on Australia.
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