Bourgeoisie chases their own short term interest, there is nothing metaphysically evil about it. The consequences are dire for everyone in the long run. Including most of the bourgeoisie as the concentration of capital happens inside the owning class too. Eventually, with destruction of our environment, even for the very wealthiest.

Western bourgeoisie isn’t better or worse by itself. The environment there is different and bourgeois class has overwhelming political power. In e.g. China bourgeoisie exists but it has no power, it’s the most important difference.

Every accusation from a Yankee imperialist is a confession.

The bourgeoisie and also class traitors serving them are more likely to be narcissistic. And narcissistic parents abuse their children emotionally.

Also, about Linux distros, Huawei recently made their own independent OS with their own kernel.

Yes, it would be cool if CPC made their own fork of LibreOffice and endorsed it instead if WPC.

But they don’t atm and endorsing LibreOffice risks endorsing a hostile actor that could use it against PRC.

I have one for a few years and I’m quite satisfied with it. As long as you really need an e-ink tablet, boox is the way to go.

A Chinese capitalist asshole is a capitalist asshole that can be controlled. A German non-profit is an actor that’s totally out of control.

A piece of free software that’s developed by an organization under control of a socialist state would be better, yes. But with what is already there, I’m not surprised what was the lesser evil from perspective of CPC.

Why would they choose a product owned by a German non-profit over a product owned by a Chinese company?

I believe that gender is going to wither away in communist society eventually. As it is a construct tightly coupled with patriarchy.

Abolishing gender in any society existing today is as idealistic as abolishing Christianity in yankeeland though. Social roles and expectations imposed by patriarchy are part of people’s reality. We need people’s consent to abolish gender and to be able to consent, people need to have awareness of gender first.

Also, gender doesn’t exist in isolation. Dismantling patriarchy will be more nuanced than dismantling its elements separately. And it will require material basis we might not currently have anywhere in the world to address it properly. (inheritance is part of the patriarchal system too!)

For now we should respect people’s struggles within the patriarchal framework and give trans people our critical support.

Gender will wither away with material conditions changing, not with us saying it shouldn’t exist.