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..Why is anti-China marxism so big?..
If you were a CIA operative, working out the details of, say, COINTELPRO, and knowing there is a substantial amount of Marxists and communist-leaning people out there... AND one of your goals was to demonize the AES states... Wouldn't you want to tear off a chunk of potential revolutionaries and defang them, turning them into armchair communists who never achieved anything and who always criticize everyone who did?
Bear in mind that a lot of those are in the West. Parenti spoke ostensibly about leftcoms/ultras (and left-anticommunism). This gets a few people off your mind, making the situation safer for the capitalist state machine at home.
"Neither Washington nor ~~Moscow~~ Beijing" shit
I have found a really simple reframing that can work on a lot of those types of people is "my enemies arent in (insert foreign capitol city) they are in washington"
A lot of them even if they dont get out of that anti-americas enemies mindset recognize the bigger threat to them is domestic politicians.
Parenti's quote about "supporting every revolution but the ones that succeed" really hit home with me. See also the broader concept of critical support, and viewing states as X% good and Y% bad instead of simply good or bad.