Lets say you are in the running for greatest boxer alive. Do you avoid fighting other people because they might threaten you? no, You let them all come and you beat the fuck out of every dumb ass who thinks they can take you.
Marxism is scientific truth and fears no criticism. If it did, and if it could be overthrown by criticism, it would be worthless. In fact, aren’t the idealists criticizing Marxism every day and in every way? And those who harbour bourgeois and petty-bourgeois ideas and do not wish to change — aren’t they also criticizing Marxism in every way? Marxists should not be afraid of criticism from any quarter. Quite the contrary, they need to temper and develop themselves and win new positions in the teeth of criticism and in the storm and stress of struggle. Fighting against wrong ideas is like being vaccinated — a man develops greater immunity from disease as a result of vaccination.
-Mao’s On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People
This is an interesting point. All I have to add is, I’m sure it makes a difference for a project like China’s whether a position is coming from an organization or from an individual and whether the organization is trying to gain political power. In general, it would probably be impractical to try to micromanage this kind of thing in the general populace and is more in line with fictional anti-communist representations of socialist states as scary and repressive.
The thing that gave me pause and what led me to making this comment is I was thinking about China’s efforts in the “great firewall” and sovereign tech and all. But it’s like… is that even about “keeping out bad ideas”? Or is it mainly about ensuring political power is in the hands of the vanguard party digitally as well as physically, which also happens to be tied up in preventing the western empire from doing digital propaganda warfare like they do to countries that don’t have sovereign tech.
Chinese people who read political/ideological theory have been educated in Dialectical Materialism and Anti-imperialism to some degree which will inoculate them against western “Marxists” or other political theory. Like how no westerners first novel is War and Peace nobody in China is starting their political theory education with zizec.
The great firewall protects non-political people from being inundated with reactionary political ideas.
Okay that makes sense. I think I am starting to get a better idea here.
and I suppose it would be quite challenging for me to grasp because the liberals in charge over here care a lot about what people think and don’t welcome critique.
Lets say you are in the running for greatest boxer alive. Do you avoid fighting other people because they might threaten you? no, You let them all come and you beat the fuck out of every dumb ass who thinks they can take you.
-Mao’s On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People
This is an interesting point. All I have to add is, I’m sure it makes a difference for a project like China’s whether a position is coming from an organization or from an individual and whether the organization is trying to gain political power. In general, it would probably be impractical to try to micromanage this kind of thing in the general populace and is more in line with fictional anti-communist representations of socialist states as scary and repressive.
The thing that gave me pause and what led me to making this comment is I was thinking about China’s efforts in the “great firewall” and sovereign tech and all. But it’s like… is that even about “keeping out bad ideas”? Or is it mainly about ensuring political power is in the hands of the vanguard party digitally as well as physically, which also happens to be tied up in preventing the western empire from doing digital propaganda warfare like they do to countries that don’t have sovereign tech.
Chinese people who read political/ideological theory have been educated in Dialectical Materialism and Anti-imperialism to some degree which will inoculate them against western “Marxists” or other political theory. Like how no westerners first novel is War and Peace nobody in China is starting their political theory education with zizec.
The great firewall protects non-political people from being inundated with reactionary political ideas.
Okay that makes sense. I think I am starting to get a better idea here.
and I suppose it would be quite challenging for me to grasp because the liberals in charge over here care a lot about what people think and don’t welcome critique.