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Marxist Paul - Is China Imperialist? w/Premier Matthew (www.youtube.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1767486

I'd be interested to hear thoughts about this discussion from Comrades in Hexbear and Lemmygrad.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I can't trust Marxist Paul's opinion on China so I dont wanna spend the time, but I'd love to be wrong

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Can you elaborate why? For my own information, not for the purposes of questioning your reasoning.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There was a few specific things he said that rubbed me an Ultra sort of way, I can't remember much in particular.

I do remember specifically him and Hakim talking about China some 3-5ish years ago, which can be summed up by Hakim saying he was "hesistantly optimistic" about China and Paul chiming that he was "hesitantly pessimistic"--in context of whether or not China was actually socialist.

Perhaps he has changed, but people who get sucked into anti-Chinese leftist spaces tend to, in my experience, get worse with time, not better. Love to be wrong though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I appreciate this sentiment, I definitely prefer to be as Hakim is. Even while acknowledging China's problems, I prefer to see it as a progressive actor taking humanity in a better direction.