I’m just curious for the new or existing people? Lemmy.ml has taken a hard turn to the right since the reddit exodus. There’s been a lot of pro-imperialist propaganda being posted on world news, and a lot less diversity of opinion. It feels more neoliberal and neo-con to me.
Does anyone want to share what their political leanings are?
I’ll start; I’m anti-imperialist pro-state regulated capitalism. I believe we should have usage based taxes (toll roads, carbon tax) and luxury taxes, and I disagree with wealth taxes for people with less than $250 million. The state should spend more money on consumer protection in all industries (environment, health, finance, etc.) I believe in multipolarity vs. US hegemony.
Marxist-Leninist. I’m a believer in Socialist philosophy and the Marxist Material Dialectic, as explained by Marx, Engles, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao.
While I am not a believer in Dengism, I believe that the Communist Party of China is ideologically Marxist and has made great strides in building China’s productive forces and improving the lives of the Chinese people.
China is a large country, with many Chinese.
I oppose Western Imperialism and offer critical support to non-Socialist countries that oppose it.
For what it’s worth, I also believe in racial and gender equality and gay/trans rights, but these battles are secondary to the class war.
Movie/show protraiting gay/trans was banned (not explicitly, like all things in China, but it is impossible to find any of these films on popular platforms) in China; there were several good movies protraiting life of gay/trans people in the past, now they are no where to be found.
Chinese authorities arrested many protestors in recent anti-lockdown protest (also known as A4 protest), and deterred many such a protest, this includes protests in school or on the street. https://zh.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/反對動態清零政策運動
Chinese government spend a huge amount of effort to get Meng Wanzhou, one of China’s largest capitalist, back in China. She goes back to China in a state-funded private plane, with a welcome crew. see: http://politics.people.com.cn/n1/2021/0926/c1001-32236326.html
Yet during Russian’s invasion of Ukraine, China was one of the last major global power to relocated its citizens from Ukraine https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/world-60557132 which is echoed by https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/539682512?utm_id=0 (the second is obviously a pro-china post, but facts are shared between these two posts). Although most pro-China media claim that China have no knowledge of the Russian invasion, the Chinese spokesperson released some puzzling instructions, including painting Chinese flag on vehicles to avoid attack https://m.guancha.cn/internation/2022_02_25_627746 , given China’s close relation with Russia and hostilities with the west (which backs Ukraine), it seems that Chiba assume Russia will achieve speedy victory, and Chinese citizens will be “spared” by Russian army.
These series of incidents shows a staring contrast between how they treat capitalist v.s. normal citizens.
Not to mention the great firewall that restrict it’s citizens from access to crucial knowledge that can be accessed freely across the world.
So my question to you is, do you think anti-minority, anti-protest, anti-knowledge, and wasting huge amount of government resources for a (foreign no less, she has a Canadian passport) capitalist is in alignment with socialism ideals promoted by Marx?
I intensionally choose the source in Chinese, many by state media, so that you wouldn’t think my source is biased. If you still don’t believe me, you can find Chinese (also Chinese-speaking) community both on fediverse (like https://douchi.space/explore, https://m.cmx.im/explore) or r/china_irl on reddit. Talk to them see what they think.
That being said, I think most people would agree that western imperialism especially from the U.S. is extremely unfair and malicious at best, straight up curle and inhumane at worst.
All I am saying is that China sucks too; it is hostile towards its citizens. China does not represent the Marxism/Socialism ideals, but rather authoritarian capitalism.