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this is a pretty blatant attempt by chinese academics to curry favour with someone in the newly purged CCP by trying to claim xi-style communism existed in anci
by calmunism 3y ago
this is a pretty blatant attempt by chinese academics to curry favour with someone in the newly purged CCP by trying to claim xi-style communism existed in ancient china.
surprised phys.org is publishing this rubbish.
- _lvbh 3y agoChina is a dictatorship. They are claiming that it wasn’t a dictatorship but a communal effort. This goes against the CCP’s narrative
- bunabhucan 3y agoWhat was the original title? Paper itself has: >In China, the tale of the legendary Great Yu’s heroic taming of floods and the subsequent founding of the Xia Dynasty continues to dominate mainstream scholarly narrative on the formation of China’s first state There must be pressure on academics to hew to a "we are an ancient civilization" narrative.
- komali2 3y agoXi-style communism is just capitalism with strong state police authority though, what do you mean? This is basically explicit in party doctrine at this point.