mao and the CPC allied with the KMT on multiple occasions in order to fight back japanese imperialist aggression; the idea that any and all capitalist forces must always be your enemy at all times feels like a moralist perspective rather than a realist one. you can maintain an ideological and philosophical course while having temporary alliances with those that disagree or even contradict you, it’s just that you have to keep in mind what the primary contradiction is and like you state that is western/american imperialism and hegemony.

i really feel like all this moral posturing is ingrained in western history and culture through christianity and its concept of moral purity: essentially claiming that capitalism is evil, and therefore any temporary alliance or peace made with capitalists corrupts your “purity of values.” disregarding how untrue this is, what use is such stringent and dogmatic commitment to a set of values when you ultimately lose or die because of it? this is the same way that china’s socialist project is discredited, because billionaires and capitalists exist despite their ultimate capitulation to the government.

all these western leftists want to posture themselves as more pure or simply more correct, when in doing so they ironically (and truly in the fashion of western imperialist projection) stan for literal nazis or NATO. it’s all very confusing and complicated.

That’s the kind of concise argument we need, simple yet powerful.

I agree with you so this is just a nitpick, but feudalism was a particular mode of production. Notably, serfs didn’t have wages or working hours and did own the products of their own labor (after rent was paid).

Capitalists definitely want things to remain capitalist because they would actually lose wealth and power if feudalism were reestablished.