I am a Marxist in China

Orthodox Marxists in the Chinese internet community often view Russia and Iran as weak links in imperialism, rather than as anti-imperialist forces .However, in the view of Chinese Marxists, opposing the global hegemony of the United States takes precedence over opposing secondary imperialisms (Iran, Russia).

The person in the picture is Yang Heping, a US citizen with a Chinese green card, and he is the most popular orthodox Marxist-Leninist-Maoist self-media figure on the Chinese internet (with 3 million followers on Tiktok and 800,000 on Bilibili). Yang Heping advocates that whether it’s Ukraine, Russia, or Iran, “the truth is on the side of the proletariat, not on the side of any government or capitalist.”

In China, those who unconditionally support Iran and Russia are usually nationalists or national leftists.

I wonder if the differences between the left-wing in Europe and America and the left-wing in China are really that significant?

  • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    8 days ago

    (this reads very weirdly, like it was written by AI or something; like a liberal asked an AI to craft something that sounds like what a Chinese Marxist might say in English)

    Chinese Marxist-Leninists believe that the root cause of everything lies in capitalist relations of production—specifically, the private ownership of the means of production and wage labor. They argue that when a weak capitalist nation breaks through a blockade and gradually evolves into a stage of monopoly capitalism, it will inevitably become the next imperialist power—citing the Empire of Japan as an example. Consequently, they maintain that such regimes should merely be utilized by the Left as instruments, rather than being objects of loyalty.

    If this is truly what they think, they should study other nations that broke away from colonialism and how they turned out; Algeria, Zimbabwe and South Africa didn’t turn into the next imperialist powers, they were simply liberated from their colonialism. Either way, there is no acceptable solution where abandoning the people of suffering nations (the Iranians for example) is the answer. Let them first be liberated and then we can deal with the fallout if there even is one.

    You hold the view that “no one but an anti-American regime can defend the Iranian people,” whereas Chinese Marxist-Leninists believe that “the victory of the Communist Party of China demonstrates that the people are capable of defending themselves.”

    That’s not what I said; The current Iranian government is the one they have, not the one we’d like but it is the current one, and they’re the holders of the military weapons to rebuff attacks against them, and the ones who have the military that has the training to resist occupation. America literally bombed water plants in Iran; the government was not able to stop that, so how would the people stop it? Genuinely what a very bizarre response; what are the people supposed to do when faced with one of the most powerful governments in the world going to war with them? Especially when both Israel and America admitted they have mossad traitors embedded in Iran and giving weapons to create armed groups in Iran, intending to try and fracture the country.

    Libya had a socialist government that was also decentralized, but their decentralization wasn’t developed enough to do anything about being attacked by America back in 2011; the people had tons of power in Libya, but the US government is way too skilled at destabilizing and destroying countries for the people to win that battle.

    Are you a liberal who’s been sticking prompts into AI? This response reeks of liberal thinking, with very unnatural dogmatic sentences tossed in.

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      8 days ago

      我现在觉得和你们交流根本是浪费时间,今天热的要死,我还要不断的用AI翻译翻译我的语言来照顾你们的语言障碍,这完全没有意义,你觉得是什么就是什么吧

      • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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        8 days ago

        The translation isn’t the problem (besides which I can just translate everything you say via google’s translate function), it’s the dogmatic responses that ignore the real world situation and which reads like the thinking of liberals.

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        7 days ago

        Right now, I feel like communicating with you is a waste of time. It’s unbearably hot today, and I have to keep using AI to translate my language to accommodate your language barriers. That’s completely meaningless. Whatever you think is what you are

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