I had this same experience reading Vincent Bevins - the jakarta method recently. I can’t get over how these ppl can learn about all the the terrible things capitalist countries have done to the developing world, yet still remain anticommunist, and still believe all the lies their country tells them about AES.

It kinda throws their whole scholarship into question, and makes you wonder if anything they say has merit, if they can so easily uncritically accept anticommunism. I’m almost done with reading these ppl because of the chance I might be misinformed by them.

“Edit: I also can’t get over her equating Deng and the Dengist reforms with Yeltsin and constantly portraying the Tiananmen protests as result of ‘corporatist’ shock therapy by the CPC. Yeltsin caused 70mio Russians to fall below the poverty line, Deng’s reforms lifted almost a billion Chinese out of poverty. How the fuck are these in any way comparable?”

Yeah, this annoys me.