GenZedong

starting a zine to develop alternative lines of thought might work back then but now we have literally tiktok (don't want to get into the absolutely easily-stirred up conspiracy-minded attitudes that is prevalent on that platform, nevermind the liberalism) but also remnant or active interference from cointelpro/related, and a relatively developed surveillance state.

The class basis in US is relatively weighed towards petit bourgeoisie and service sector proletariat, not much in terms of (active) productive/industrial based proletariat, while China back then was very very agrarian and most numerous class by far was peasantry.

And instead of territory split and controlled by warlords who shifted allegiances at a whim, waves hands at militarized police apparatus.

Most importantly, using patriotism and nationalism for bolstering and uniting Chinese who are ALL aborigine (native) to their land is something I find completely inapplicable to the sort of patriotism and nationalism of the settler-colonial flavor; of course it might be applicable to indigenous (including bipoc) but numbers-wise the country is still 50%+ non-indigenous, not that people of settler background(s) can't support landback. Even if it were a preferential avenue, historic allegiances and unity between tribes and peoples were few unlike China's history of its imperial system (which was largely a federated system) that united a large landmass and had a very influential logographic writing system that did not require communicators to speak the same oral language to understand each other; and speaking of bipoc , there is some prevalence of antiblackness within some indigenous groups as well as bad blood in some of tribes trading with settlers in black slaves, as well as communities of african americans who have integrated into the bourgeois settler class. 【This block is something I think that a lot of Chinese netizens on XHS who are well-meaning do not grasp. Also, troubling? maybe?, is that I've found that "immigrant" and "settler" (eg settler-colonialism variety) both get translated to 移民 so that is harder to communicate on those lines with friends on XHS】

For the last few decades while neoliberalization was slowly happening (well, faster in places like Flint, MI) most US Americans have been still relatively comfortable. It's been less than 2 weeks of the 2nd Trump administration and from everything that's been happening recently it just seems like self-inflicted accelerationism, even if it is in clear service towards reconsolidation of internal power.

Anyway It's a lot to think about.