I get it mostly from actual party members. That said my understanding is second hand, the actual groups in the party split along several axis and my Mandarin is aggressively middling. So take what I say with several grains of salt. Also keep in mind party members are quite rightly restricted in what they can say and I am reading between the lines.
In the sense that the economy would have to make it up elsewhere rather than a temporary decline in trade volume.
Obviously there are confounding factors (internal knock on effects would increase it, pivoting to non US sources or middlemen would decrease it) and I don’t have anywhere near enough knowledge to work through that. But even if it took 3 years to fully recover and pivot, that’s three years with GDP growth essentially cut by a third. In the west that same cut would tip most economies into deep recession.
I think someone used to a low security western prison, especially on the Scandinavian model might find them a bit confronting but I’ve seen high security au prisons and Indonesian prisons and let me tell to Chinese prison is much better than the former and a sparkling utopia compared to the latter.
Gonna get them in red and get my homies to wear them to her next AU match
Indeed you often see people petitioning the central government to intervene against the provincial governments (which are very powerful and ideologically diverse, representing the 5 broad fractions (not factions) of the CPC (capitalist reformist, Left-nationalist, neo-confucian nationalist, Party-centre, and Neo Maoist))
Conversely, local and provincial governments are often sharply critical of central government policy and say so. The Shanghai left-wing papers (of which Sixth Tone is an English offshoot) are often shockingly so.
A permanent 3% drop in GDP is definitely gonna hurt, but yeah it’s not collapse grade.
Only thing besides death or banning that will make me log off is the Revolution so A Lot Of People.
It doesn’t until things get really bad, unfortunately. But it’s how Lenin won, by being right about everything and every other faction failing in turn.
KPD
We fix it by being right. And insufferable about pointing this out.
Remember, always, fascism is unsustainable, it is capitalism eating its own seed corn until the amount of people it has to fuck over reaches a critical mass.
The KPD used to say “after Hitler, us.” And while it’s hard to call that strategy successful, it was correct.
After fascism. After collapse. After revolution. Us. We must be prepared for that.
Fanon is rambling, it’s true. He will get to the point but the rambling is an attempt at establishing intrinsic knowledge for the later sections.
But compared to Hegel or Lacan he might as well be speaking in single syllables
I’d suggest Mao then. He’s often almost insulting in his literalness.
The only exceptions are later western theorists like Althussier or Adorno. The main people doing shit (Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Fanon) are all easy reads.
Actually Mao is probably the most approachable since he wrote for the newly literate.
Lol. Lmao. Roflcopter.
I agree, doesn’t really fit Marx, though an affair isn’t out of the question I doubt he’d abandon a child at any cost
Agreed, I’d also suggest a high but finite comment limit too, perhaps 100 comments a day in the comm
Historical materialism. Understanding that a person is largely shaped by their conditions allows you to realise that expurging brainworms is really hard, but not impossible.
It also allows you to realise that being nice to you and having your interests at heart are two very, very different things.
Pumped for 1 country 2 systems Dresden.
Revenge.
EDIT: damn it someone took it so I have to be earnest
I love the world, I love every single human, even the shits fighting us. I want every part of it to blossom into its full beauty. I want to turn the stars green. I want us all to dance among the universe forever. I want us all to join into cosmic union without losing our own selves.
None of this will happen in our lifetime. But if I can hasten it’s coming by even an hour, what glory can surpass that?