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> We can't change the Chinese government; nobody can. It's a political monolith built from the ground up to maintain its own stability above all else. People o
by ardy42 8y ago
> We can't change the Chinese government; nobody can. It's a political monolith built from the ground up to maintain its own stability above all else.
People once thought the same thing about Soviet Russia, and they were wrong. The Chinese government can be changed, it's just that none of the actions "we" can do to help with that have any clear path to quick success. I think it'll be more an exercise of doing what one can (like refusing to cooperate with censorship. tying to subvert it, amplifying dissidents, etc.) and waiting.
Just to clarify, I'm taking "we" to mean all of us opposed to authoritarianism, across all national boundaries.
- alexandre_m 8y agoThat's foolish to believe that. Soviet Russia in the 80s was falling apart after economic stagnation, then the perestroika and glasnost would make it open to critic communism itself, even some events like Chernobyl contributed to some extent. You wouldn't have even dreamed to make Soviet Russia regime fall with "social pressure" under Stalin. China is not regressing nor stagnating, it's peaking. You can't take it out from the inside so easily.