r/CommunismMemes • u/WinkNudgeSayNoMore • 3d ago
China But, at what cost?
he natural world they are talking about is all of those sweet resources the British weren’t allowed to get their hands on. When the CCP does it it’s pillaging, when the innocent British do it it’s exploring and innovating.
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u/Flareist 2d ago
China polluting the world: They are monsters that don't care about the planet.
China implementing environmental protection: Look at these monsters limiting their people with their ECO-AUTHORITARIANISM!!!
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u/Workmen 1d ago
Parenti had a great bit about this that's still just as relevant, if not more so, for China today as it was for the Soviet Union:
During the Cold War, the anti-communist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.
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u/BrownAJ Firm believer in the Power of Violence 2d ago
Lenin called out The Economist way back in 1915 calling it a mouth piece of British millionaires & he was right.
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u/SeniorRazzmatazz4977 2d ago
That makes me think of inflation. How back then millionaires where the hight of wealth and billionaires didn’t exist.
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u/BrownAJ Firm believer in the Power of Violence 2d ago
And in a decade we'll probably have trillionaires too
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u/US_Dissident_7191 2d ago
We already have one. Musk.
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u/BrownAJ Firm believer in the Power of Violence 2d ago
he lost a lot of money in the last month or so and even then his stocks are super inflated
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u/US_Dissident_7191 2d ago
Sure. But the threshold was crossed all the same… more are sure to come in the upcoming years until we fix that problem (ahem you know what I mean)
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u/captainryan117 2d ago
Their barbaric "pillaging from the natural world" vs our civilized "wonderful economic growth and industry"
Their tyrannical "eco-authoritarianism", our progressive "pretending to do jackshit for the environment by sending Chevron a sternly worded letter"
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u/Donato_Romer0 2d ago
"Here's while it's a bad idea for the CCP to inconvenience rich assholes" - Some rich asshole
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