Why we must defend China
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This edited talk was presented during an Aug. 13 webinar, “Book Launch: The East is Still Red: Chinese Socialism in the 21st Century.”  It is such an honor to participate in this discussion. Thank you, Carlos Martinez, for a real contribution to the political level of discussion among Marxist

Consider if [neo]imperialism prevailed and was able to halt China’s development. That would be a historic defeat, not only for the workers and peasants of China. It would have a global impact.

The collapse of the Soviet Union was a terrible setback for the working-class struggle globally. The capitalist class gained a huge advantage and set out to recolonize whole parts of the world that had made huge gains. Eastern Europe reverted to its former semi-colonial status compared to Western Europe. In Africa and throughout the Arab world, U.S. [neo]imperialism set out to unravel the gains of nationalist régimes.

    • Black AOC
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      1 year ago

      Last I checked, China wasn’t trying to establish drone bases out of Niger, didn’t try to do the same thing with Burkina Faso or Mali, isn’t sanctioning Eritrea to literal death for daring to be a socialist Afrikan nation, and doesn’t have an entire military command structure literally called AFRICOM dedicated to the cause of colonizing sovereign Afrikan nations, establishing even more military bases with which to enforce their leeching of resources, and fomenting terrorist organizations to do the dirty work of attacking those who won’t concede ‘diplomatically’ to them, but

      Go off, yankee.