I’m not a history or politics buff even on the topic of China, but due decades of misinformation on China, especially in the English-speaking world, I find it necessary to speak out with official Chinese sources.

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Joined 4 years ago
Cake day: October 16th, 2021
  • qwename@lemmygrad.mltoComradeship // Freechat@lemmygrad.ml•The Dialectics of Suicide
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    2 years ago

    Suicide can have revolutionary forms, when revolutionaries do so in dire situations to avoid being captured and interrogated for intel. But suicide can also be a cover story for murder, or an abrupt end to the narration of your own story, or an easy way out.

    There is no revolutionary act in suicide by someone who says “long live the revolution” and then chooses to end their life under no immediate threat. I will not call you selfish, but hypocritical. Mental illness is not an excuse to pretend to be revolutionary.

    Just yesterday I watched the opening ceremony of the Hangzhou Asian Para Games, but I do not want to start comparing which disabilities are worse than others. Physical and mental disabilities are not something you can just wish away, that is why fighting to live, and trying to live a colourful life is more of a revolutionary act than suicide, because you can prove that your disabilities don’t diminish your being.

    The bourgeoisie will be glad to hear of potential revolutionaries killing themselves, one less person to worry about, but as fellow comrades, it is us who will share the burden of a loss life.

    We cannot just dismiss an intentional suicide by saying “if that’s what they really wanted”.

    Marxists want to change the world into a better place for the masses, not end their own life as some sort of “revolutionary act”, that would be a death cult. If you can justify ending your own life, imagine how easy it is for the bourgeoisie to justify killing all the impoverished and ill.

    To live is not just a biological instinct, it is also to defy those who wish you dead!

  • qwename@lemmygrad.mltoComradeship // Freechat@lemmygrad.ml•*Permanently Deleted*
    17·
    2 years ago

    I’m not sure about the immigration process in any of the countries you mentioned, but I think you do need to come up with a good reason other than just being communist, how would the immigration office even vet your claims? Even if it sounds like your education experience doesn’t look good, there’s still your work experience to consider.

    How did you “message the Chinese government” anyway, through their embassies or something? There are less than a million foreigners living in China according to the 2020 census: http://www.stats.gov.cn/english/PressRelease/202105/t20210510_1817193.html

    IV. Purposes of Staying in Chinese Mainland

    Of the above population, 77008 persons came for business, 444336 persons came for employment, 219761 persons came for study, 419517 persons came for settlement, 74735 persons came to visit relatives, and 195338 persons came for other purposes.

  • qwename@lemmygrad.mltoGenZedong@lemmygrad.ml•What is the Chinese media saying about Israel and Palestine at the moment
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    2 years ago

    Q: Fierce conflict has broken out between Israel and Palestinian armed groups in the Gaza Strip, causing massive casualties on both sides. Does China have any comment on this?

    A: China is deeply concerned over the current escalation of tensions and violence between Palestine and Israel. We call on relevant parties to remain calm, exercise restraint and immediately end the hostilities to protect civilians and avoid further deterioration of the situation.

    The recurrence of the conflict shows once again that the protracted standstill of the peace process cannot go on. The fundamental way out of the conflict lies in implementing the two-state solution and establishing an independent State of Palestine. The international community needs to act with greater urgency, step up input into the Palestine question, facilitate the early resumption of peace talks between Palestine and Israel, and find a way to bring about enduring peace. China will continue to work relentlessly with the international community towards that end.

    State media (mainly Xinhua and CCTV) reports on both sides of the situation in Palestine and Israel in the same news article, like they have been doing for Russia and Ukraine since Feb 2022.

    There is this photo circulating around on Weibo (Chinese Twitter/X), which reads “坚决支持巴勒斯坦和阿拉伯人民反对美帝国主义和犹太复国主义的斗争”, which translates to something like “firmly support the Palestinian and Arab people’s struggle against U.S. imperialism and Zionism”. I might be wrong but this was probably taken around May 25 of 1967 during a rally in Beijing, or maybe in March 1965 when a Palestinian Liberation Organization delegation visited China.

    Israeli embassy is posting things on Weibo but they have to use the “select comments” feature to only display pro-Israel comments. Palestinian embassy’s Weibo stopped posting in 2012, their last post was about how the Chinese government and people have always supported the just cause of the Palestinian people’s struggle to restore their legitimate national rights, and included this picture of Deng Xiaoping and Yasser Arafat:

    People are still commenting on this old post as a sign of solidarity with Palestine.

  • qwename@lemmygrad.mltoGenZedong@lemmygrad.ml•Do most people in China identify as communist?
    31·
    2 years ago

    In China there are:

    • 98 million members of the Communist Party of China (7% of the population)
    • 73 million members of the Communist Youth League (there is overlap in membership with the CPC as the age requirements are 14 to 28 years old for the CYL and over 18 for the CPC, so do not just add the numbers from the CPC and CYL)
    • 114 million members of the Chinese Young Pioneers (ages 6 to 14)

    Joining the CPC is about taking on a responsibility to the Party and people, which is different from just believing in the principles of communism as a non-Party member.

    The rest of the population can certainly “identify as communist” without being members of the CPC/CYL/CYP, but it depends on how you define it.

  • qwename@lemmygrad.mltoAsk Lemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml•Which is the Marxist Leninist take on the death penalty?
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    2 years ago

    I’ve said this before in that thread:

    In practice, the number of people dying under the death penalty is nothing compared to the number of people killed in acts of crime, so this unhealthy obsession with “avoid killing innocent people under the state” and finding justification for the death penalty is unnecessary and missing the point.

    I find this idealist notion of worrying about “wrongful convictions” to be very reactionary. Yes any wrongful convictions should be avoided, but no the death penalty shouldn’t be abolished just because there’s a nonzero chance of “wrongful convictions” occurring.

  • qwename@lemmygrad.mltoGenZedong@lemmygrad.ml•How can we find more left unity?
    10·
    2 years ago

    You will need

    1. a collective leadership,
    2. physical base of operations,
    3. to do work IRL that benefits the exploited, and
    4. propaganda/publicity (neutral term) to attract members or supporters.

    I imagine most groups online cover point 4, but lack all the rest.

    Point 1: There will be no “real” unity without a single voice of authority, unless you want anarchist ways of organization.

    Point 2: Building tangible things IRL is necessary as humans are not digital lifeforms.

    Point 3: If there’s nothing to show beneath all the talk, then there isn’t any reason for people to support you.

    Point 4: This one everyone probably understands.