Fontasia@feddit.nl to MeanwhileOnGrad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 4 months agoHelp, I can't convince people who have more direct experience than me that they are wrongfeddit.nlimagemessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1imageHelp, I can't convince people who have more direct experience than me that they are wrongfeddit.nlFontasia@feddit.nl to MeanwhileOnGrad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square4fedilink
minus-squarenova_ad_vitum@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoThe CCP’s authoritarianism stems in part from their attempt to implement the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. The concept itself is pretty weird. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship_of_the_proletariat
minus-squaregravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoBut it was never that, from the instant Mao gained any real hold on power in China. He subsumed the entire movement, and fundamentally corrupted it, in much the same way that Stalin did.
minus-squareThe Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoyou gotta understand something about tankies: they think that’s a good thing
The CCP’s authoritarianism stems in part from their attempt to implement the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. The concept itself is pretty weird.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship_of_the_proletariat
But it was never that, from the instant Mao gained any real hold on power in China. He subsumed the entire movement, and fundamentally corrupted it, in much the same way that Stalin did.
you gotta understand something about tankies: they think that’s a good thing