• HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    When will Westerners realize that the common characture of the brainwashed, thought controlled, information controlled, constantly surveiled citizen that we attribute to China/The USSR/etc… IS US?! You clutch your pearls at people in other countries potentially being treated like that but are inclined to do nothing about OUR OWN countries treating US like that.

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        2 months ago

        In what way is China fascist? It’s a socialist country, public ownership is the principle aspect of the economy and the working classes control the state.

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          2 months ago

          Authoritarianism, violent oppression of minorites and dissenting movements, deeply ingrained surveillance state with state censorship.

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            China does not violently oppress minorities, and wielding state authority, censorship, and surveilance against capitalists and fascists is necessary for a socialist state, and doesn’t make it fascist. Fascism is capitalism violently defending itself from decay and solidifying bourgeois control, not proletarian.