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My view is that Xi Jinping is basically practicing the classic technique of re-interpreting accepted texts to mean what you want, as a way of making your point
by nickff 5y ago
My view is that Xi Jinping is basically practicing the classic technique of re-interpreting accepted texts to mean what you want, as a way of making your point while appearing to 'stay the course'. I think Strauss described and practiced this very well in "Persecution and the Art of Writing".[1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_and_the_Art_of_Writing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_and_the_Art_of_Wri...
- droptablemain 5y agoRegardless of whether the method has some origin in classic technique, it is indeed a strategy that the vast majority of AES (actually existing socialism) states have done. That's why Soviet ideology was Marxism-Leninism vs...well...Marxism. The Sandanistas, Cuba, Vietnam, etc. have done this as well. Also the Bolivarian socialists.
- _jal 5y agoEvery power structure does it. SCOTUS justices reach diametrically opposite conclusions through the same 'technique'.