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> Lots of Chinese apparatchiks on here. It's possible for people to disagree with you without being employed by the Chinese government.
by twblalock 8y ago
> Lots of Chinese apparatchiks on here.
It's possible for people to disagree with you without being employed by the Chinese government.
- sparkie 8y agoYes, but it's also well-known that wumao exist. If you assume that communism is a stupid idea (which you should), then you probably assume that people posting pro-communist ideas (or dismissing pro-capitalist ideas), must either be stupid, or wumao. Most Chinese people think Communism is a stupid idea too.
- zozbot123 8y agoMany Western folks do support communism unfortunately. The people who are actually within living memory of a communist state know better (and yes this includes the Chinese - the "socialism with Chinese characteristics" of today is something different which expressly disclaims the idea of communism being directly achievable via central planning alone). It's not stupidity, it's wishful thinking. To be sure, a very foolish sort of wishful thinking, which betrays deep ignorance about how the real world works -- but one that's often nonetheless found in association with skin-deep intellectualism and faux-"smarts".