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Venezuela: Gov’t to launch China-backed anti-poverty program (mronline.org)

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

inc Venezuela lifting 14 million people out of poverty

For real though, I take this as a piece of evidence that the PRC is exporting revolution. It is simply not in the form many of us imagined it would be.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is a paraphrase of a comment that I posted on Reddit some time ago:

China certainly exports ideology. For example, the notion of "mutually beneficial win-win cooperation" as opposed to the "zero-sum game". These types of ideals serve as the foundation for China-Global South (South-South) cooperation to industrialize and modernize former colonized and developing nations rather than simply exist as raw material exporters. This way, they can finally pry the grasp of the imperial core on their holdings and become an independent, sovereign power. You could consider that exporting "revolution" or "socialism".

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I really never thought about it that way. I like it.

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