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It's not prosperity gospel to tell westerners that the revolution isn't going to come from abroad to save them. The American revolution will have to come from America.
I'm saying this assuming the anglophone twitter user is from the global north, it's possible that's not the case. Still, the revolution will have to come from the place it's happening, not be imposed by another country.
What is it about a commenter being from the global north that makes it thermodynamically impossible for China to, for example, send rifles and small arms ammunition to revolutions in the majority world like the USSR did?
It is indeed true that the revolution will need to come from Americans in america, but the full extent of support for said movements in america, to my limited understanding, is that organizations like the PSL receive funding from overseas sometimes.
In my opinion, socialist states issuing any kind of material influence whatsoever isn't actually in contradiction with the fact that Americans need to actually do things.
I agree, but I think "Help us China" without more context is just "China will save us". IMO "we can't save you, you have to take these steps yourselves" is a reasonable response. If "Help us China" was instead a detailed comment pointing out things that communists in other countries are asking China for that they could easily give and that would really advance their revolutions, I might feel differently.
What's relevant about the commenter being in the global north is that the global north has no real ongoing revolutionary movement that is even at a stage where it could seriously benefit from Chinese assistance. One day the PSL might need Chinese small arms and ammunition, but not today. Today, that would just lead to the PSL getting instantly shut down.
I agree completely with this comment.
Mainly the fact that there is no revolution in the global north to send guns to. The US is having some domestic disturbance, and you're already oversaturated with firearms, and yet there's still nothing organised for China to support even if it wanted to.
I think people are well aware that revolutions aren’t spearheaded by foreign powers. But the OP would have been more palatable if China had a better track record of supporting AES states.
The US is certainly not China’s responsibility, but they don’t exactly take care of their own backyard. I guess holding them up to the standards set by the Soviet Union’s ideological commitments in foreign policy is asking too much despite the former having achieved far bigger financial and productive dominance.
The PRC does not have military dominance compared with the SU. The SU during the 60s had more nukes than the PRC has right now in 2026. You can't have a SU foreign policy without a SU military to back up that policy, and what the PLA currently has right now doesn't cut it (although that will change very soon).
The entire Warsaw Pact had 69k tanks ready to drive west and push the Atlanticist bourgeoisie straight to the Atlantic they love so much. The PLA does not have 69k tanks. The PLA doesn't even have a nuclear powered aircraft carrier.
See my other comments in the thread, I agree with you on this, it would be nice if China was more like the USSR. However, I think "China help us" as a tweet is just "China will save us" type of stuff and "the revolution has to come from within" is not only a reasonable reply to that, it's 100% correct.