didnt they fight the boers at one point
That's true and good, but even then, in the process they also invented the concept of the concentration camp. I mean, rounding up civilians into cramped, unsanitary conditions with little food so that they all die of disease is a pretty obvious idea, but they systematized and came up with the euphemism for it.
And US republicans say they believe in freedom above all.
Nonsequitur, of course everyone says they believe in freedom, including you, the difference is whether their actions lead to it, which the Communist Party of China's have done.
I figured it would be this story, I just wanted to make sure it wasn't some other phantasm you'd conjured up. Pornography is illegal in China (as it should be). These women were writing erotic novels that crossed the legal boundary into pornography, however that's judged, and selling them. There is a thriving market for gay erotica that skirts the pornography law, and a thriving scene for 'pornographic' novels that aren't being sold for money, the problem is when you try to secretly sell the latter. As a result, 22 people have been arrested for essentially tax fraud, out of a population of 1,400,000,000.
And why would China be anti-LGBT? Like most of the third world, China has some cultural conservatives with anti-LGBT views, but also like in most of the third world, these were installed by colonizers forcing westernization and Christian morality upon them. China has a long history of LGBT acceptance and even celebration in its pre-modern history, such as the 'passion of the cut sleeve' (go look it up). The crucial difference is that unlike in the western world, they don't have a massive, powerful, fundamentalist religious lobby that can dictate policy and force them back in the wrong direction. The Chinese youth are unsurprisingly more progressive than their elders, so as time goes on attitudes should soften more.
But this brings up another important point: without a state, what are you going to do with all the homophobes? Do you think you could have a peaceful anarchist revolution in the United States and everyone would just stop hating gay and transgender people by themselves? Do you think the reactionaries of the US won't need to be imprisoned until they can be educated into not hating the gays? Do you think you won't need a special body of armed men to forcibly suppress the urge to lynch which lives in the heart of a large fraction of USians? What is the anarchist mechanism for actually transforming the world as it is now, into the world we want it to be, without apparently inconveniencing anyone? You can't answer this of course, because anyone who thinks about it long enough and actually references history becomes a communist.
I would expect someone trying to criticize something to have the most basic familiarity with it, yes.
Israel has requested international assistance to combat the ongoing fires, reaching out to Cyprus, Croatia, Greece, and Italy for support.
The aid Israel will get after these fires compared to what Gaza has gotten in a year and a half of bombing is gonna jokerify me
- Territories: Kuban, Belgorod and Kursk become Ukrainian-speaking regions
Even in their "Russians are the aggressors, Ukraine is just an innocent smol bean" wish-list screed they just have to blurt out their ambitions of ethnic cleansing
::: spoiler Regarding this CEO, there's one important question I've yet to see anyone ask... Vaxxed??
Their laughable propagandistic 'special military operation'
Our accurate and reasonable 'limited ground incursion'
No, they're right, Xi would be helpless trying to explain dialectical materialism to a reader of the Wall Street Journal
Oh, did someone get addicted to property speculation?
Like salmon migrating, each generation feels the inexorable call to walk under an artillery shell from Izhevsk
The millions and millions of peasants and workers who formed the absolutely committed base of the communist party yes. Here's a question for you: HOW did the Bolsheviks gain power? When the Tsarist regime was crushing and oppressing the workers, and after the February revolution when the bourgeoise transitional state was gearing up for another round of WW1, HOW did the Bolsheviks come out on top? Was there a magic crown they grabbed to take control of the revolution? Did they use communist mind control? So "the peasants ... democratically rejected [the] bolshevik clergy [sic] over and over again through the soviets back in 1919" ^[Citation needed] but the bolsheviks just overruled them... how?
This is the problem with a liberal-idealist understanding of the world which is not based in material reality, you don't think about things like that. The bolsheviks won BECAUSE they had the full, furious support of dozens of millions of workers and peasants, without which they could not possibly have defeated the White army or constructed a socialist state. The Soviet people worked tirelessly to build a society of technological wonders as well as the military power needed to defend it against a world of capitalist enemies. Enemies like the Polish fascists who invaded the USSR in 1921, annexing a massive region that was (and is today) part of Belarus and Ukraine. Do you think retaking these areas (and saving their populations from the advancing Nazis) was wrong of the USSR? Do you think these territories should be part of Poland today? Should Belarus and western Ukraine be re-annexed to the Polish state, which held them for less than twenty years?
Six million Ukrainians fought in the Red Army in WW2, making up 23% of the Soviet Union's entire armed forces. The insignificant handful of traitorous fascist worms who sabotaged their own nation, collaborated with the Nazis and gleefully massacred Jews (and Poles!!) do not represent the Ukrainian people. This is what the 'Ukrainian Nationalists' have to say about their time 'resisiting the communists':
And here a photo of a Jewish woman being chased by men and youth armed with clubs during the Lviv pogroms, 1941, Ukraine (CW: violence)
Which is the kind of thing the Red Army put a stop to.
Here I agree with Rosa Luxemburg: Granting Finland independence and not supporting the morally correct side in its civil war was objectively a mistake. The Red Army should have marched on Helsinki in 1918 but Lenin and the bolsheviks were too committed to the policy of the right of nations to self-determination, so they let it be taken over by nationalists who would go on to aid the Nazis in the siege of Leningrad that killed 1.5 million people. Don't look up the insignia used by the Finnish air force until 2020.
Literally yes, that was an anti-colonial act, except that they immediately replaced Japanese imperialism in the eastern Pacific with US imperialism. Also what really drove the Japanese to surrender was the Soviet invasion of Manchuria. The Japanese had hoped the USSR would act as a neutral arbiter for a conditional truce between them and the US, but when it was clear the USSR was going to roll up the fascists wherever they found them, the Japanese unconditionally surrendered to the US specifically to avoid the possibility of a communist takeover. The US then immediately put Japanese military leaders (i.e. war criminals) to work against the communists in the Phillipines, Korea, Vietnam and everywhere else in South-East Asia. Actions you presumably support, as those war criminals were deployed first and foremost against the worst of all liberal boogeymen, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Did you know the US invasion killed around 20% of the population of the Korean peninsula?
Let me know when an anarchist gets to space.
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