u/ponguso - originally from r/GenZhou
It can definitely be annoying but I think it’s best to find comfort in knowing what they think literally doesn’t matter. Doesn’t affect China in the slightest. All you have to do if someone is not willing to admit they are wrong about China is just disengage and wait. Just literally wait. Its only a matter of time till China proves them wrong just by continuing to exist.

u/emisneko - originally from r/GenZhou

In the United States, for over a hundred years, the ruling interests tirelessly propagated anticommunism among the populace, until it became more like a religious orthodoxy than a political analysis. During the Cold War, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.

Michael Parenti, “Left Anticommunism: The Unkindest Cut”

u/CdeRoboseGhouls - originally from r/GenZhou
Why would their opinions matter at all? Yankee “leftists” are inconsequential even in their own country, let alone to the rest of the world.

u/3multi - originally from r/GenZhou
A so-called leftist who tries to use the term state capitalism as if it is a bad thing is either just ignorant or willfully ignorant.

u/rea11ydgaf - originally from r/GenZhou
The majority of western “leftists” support western imperialism because it’s in their material/class interest to do so. Having/expressing negative views of any states opposed to western imperialism (socialist or otherwise) is part of that. The specifics will change with whatever the latest flavor-of-the-month media outrage is.

u/teardeem - originally from r/GenZhou
what does aes stand for?

u/okcumpootor - originally from r/GenZhou
if china legalized weed they’d get on board

u/iloveyoumiri - originally from r/GenZhou
I’m a western leftist that dresses & conducts myself as many western leftists do. I don’t expect that I’d be accepted in Soviet or post soviet russia, or in China regardless of the economic system they’re under. I think it’s weird that they restrict that stuff so much, but so so many capitalist countries so it doesn’t impact my stance on the economics of these countries at all. Regardless, reducing poverty is so much more important lol