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[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 70 points 2 years ago (2 children)

No ML denies that China is 'authoritarian'. They argue that all states are.

Almost everything Marxists say is poorly understood by their detractors and framed in a negative light in one way or another.

what as far as I can tell is the rest of the academic world that doesn’t agree with you?

This makes it seem as though you haven't read the literature and arguments of either side. If that's the case you shouldn't be coming to any conclusions at all, especially to dismiss one side outright for being unorthodox. By definition, the counter narrative is going to sound unorthodox in light of the orthodox claims. The correct approach is to read the source and judge it on its own merit and in light of other known facts.

[–] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"No investigation, no right to speak"

-a quote from an EVIL AUTHORITARIAN!

[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 2 years ago

Same energy as saying that Soviets 'pressed' women into science careers in the same era as liberals were paying Nazi fashion designers (Dior) to design clothes for women (the 'new look') that made working almost impossible, so as to force them back into the home after their taste of (relative) freedom during the war years.

(To be fair to Dior, his sister was based and he apparently named a perfume after her but my source for this is rather cleansing (Wikipedia) so who knows how true that is.)