u/Revnow2 - originally from r/GenZhou
When the USSR existed, western leftists complained that their stances on long hair, rock music, etc was evidence of their totailtarian, authoritarian nature, now that China has loosened up those restrictions and allowed for more individual expression, western leftists are calling China “state capitalism” What gives?
u/LHtherower - originally from r/GenZhouThe issue with this though is that the USSR is still broadly viewed negatively by the Western left. Propaganda works wonders for the capitalist establishment.
u/3multi - originally from r/GenZhouThe CIA knows that Americans are misinformed about the USSR
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80-00810A006000360009-0.pdf
If a so called leftist tries to rebuttal against this they’re not worth wasting anymore time on just move on
u/LHtherower - originally from r/GenZhouGod that document always blows my mind even now. The fact that even the CIA figured out that for the most part the Soviet people were united against the common threat is INSANE.
u/3multi - originally from r/GenZhouI don’t think it’s insane.
An intelligence agency has to know the truth in order to successfully carry out its propaganda missions.
If you think that’s insane you should watch this video. The entire Hollywood film history of the United States is all propoganda. The CIA has its hand in all media past and present. Books, film, print, TV news, journalism.
u/3multi - originally from r/GenZhouAlso, the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 (NDAA 2013) removed the restrictions on domestic propogandizing
u/ponguso - originally from r/GenZhouThat also doesn’t matter and also doesn’t affect China in any way. The success of china and socialism in general will simply force Americans to accept a realistic view of the USSR, because as socialism increases in success, the contradictions of capitalism in the west will become too clear to deny. So idk it doesn’t matter if they view the USSR negatively, only matters that the people building socialism today view it realistically, which they do. If anything, they can’t eventually concede that china is socialist and good for the world without conceding that the USSR during Stalin wasn’t also socialism and also good. One was directly inspired by the other.
u/LHtherower - originally from r/GenZhouTrue. Good response!