cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/66479569
Nationalism, the rightwing, racism - they are all returning full force in Europe. Trumpism and Russia are using all their powers to destroy European democracies; through open and covert propaganda. You, the voter, can never claim you weren’t warned.
We must not forget the money from the Chinese Communist Party …
Marriage of Convenience: How European Far-Right and Far-Left Discovered China
“echoing Beijing’s narratives and raising concerns about foreign influence and manipulation.”
and the irony was completely lost on them…
I’ve never heard of any “far left” parties aligning with China, we all hate the chinese government. Communists aren’t “far left” they are authoritarians.
I mean, Lemmy is full of China stans who identify as far-left.
How many that adds up to IRL is another matter.
Oh yeah, lemmy is communist central, they were the first purged from reddit so were on the ground floor of developing lemmy.
To be clear many of their users are great, they have bad leadership and a sizable contingent of cheerleaders for their favoured regimes like china and russia, not to mention legions of trolls with alternate accounts all over lemmy instances, and moderators embedded in instances where the instance is not necessarily aware of their other affiliations.
It’s real top down from what I’ve seen. You can be talking amiably and one of their enforcer minded types sees something and calls it out, the people you are talking to disappear, to scared to defend anything, and the trolls show up.
Frankly, I consider a couple of their instances to be the long palsied arm of russian intelligence, as they push a worldview that if they tried to push in russia or china would quickly be sent to gulags/the front in the war, or re-education slave labour camps.
Yeap. The whole idea about China & The USSR being “communist” was pretty much a fraud since early in the game, and yet that misconception is like the gift that keeps on giving for right-wingers in the 20th century and beyond.
The Right has truly mastered cherry-picking their fruit over the years, ensuring that “1984” will be an inevitability, not a warning.
More Handmaids Tale or Fahrenheit 451, wouldn’t you think?
Pick your poison, but whichever it is, it won’t be around long, either.
China is capitalist, there has been no socialism, not there, not in the USSR. Most definitely not communism.
State Capitalism is Capitalism, and China is going away even from that. There is no surprise. The intersection you’re describing is the combination of capitalism and authoritarianism, which is also corporatism, which is also fascism.
You have it backwards. The elite introduces fascism to fight China. “No dominating power in Asia” still has to be at the top of their mind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Chessboard
China is in a catch-22: they have to finance the opposition to avert their forceful destruction by the parties of the western elite but that opposition also wants to see them diminished and the US are about to also take over those parties as can be seen with Musk and the AfD.