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  • After years of brutal repression, China's Communist Party tries to turn Xinjiang into a tourism hotspot

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  • People protest in China all the time. They talk shit about the government too. This notion of "freedom" you have is a veil of capitalist propaganda intended to keep you working until you die. Don't worry, I'm firmly opposed to the biggest authoritarian nation in the world, the United States.

  • After years of brutal repression, China's Communist Party tries to turn Xinjiang into a tourism hotspot

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  • It's not whataboutism, ya dingus. Prison labor is simply a common part of most countries. I'm simply stating that there's no difference between "work camps" and "prison labor." There's also no difference between "reeducation" and "rehabilitation" or "forced labor" and "prison labor programs."

  • After years of brutal repression, China's Communist Party tries to turn Xinjiang into a tourism hotspot

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  • The "ethnic group" in question are arrested because they're associated with Turkistan Movement. A terrorist organization that believes Xinjiang belongs to Turkistan. While members of this terrorist organization are Uygher Muslims, they also attack Uygher Muslims and are arrested by Xinjiang police, which employ Uygher Muslims. Half of the region is Uygher and they're trying to handle a terrorist situation.

  • After years of brutal repression, China's Communist Party tries to turn Xinjiang into a tourism hotspot

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  • Just ignore the existence of terrorist group that keeps stabbing citizens and setting off bombs. Pretend that Xinjiang is not an automous zone with its own governance. Condemn China for using prison labor even though the US has the largest prison labor population in the world. Get mad because the belt and road initiative is improving a region cut off from resources for so long. Brain broken Western media.

  • Lemmy might, MIGHT have a small bias towards the left

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  • Capitalism is not "when you have markets." I totally agree that it's important to have well regulated markets. But capitalism perverts democracy with bribery and lobbying. Democratic Socialism is when you have a democratic government and a democratic economy.

  • Lenin

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  • You're showing statues of Lenin in countries in which the Dictatorship of the Proletariat failed to cede power to the working class and establish a socialist economic structure.

    When Lenin took power, Russia had nothing. It was in the middle of WW1, there were regular famines, almost everyone was illiterate, and it was in no condition to establish a socialist economic plan. So, Lenin created a temporary economic model called The Dictatorship of the Proletariat. This is a centrally planned economy designed to rapidly develop infrastructure and industry in a country that has none. Lenin was already ceding power to the worker's councils when he died. Stalin decided he liked The Dictatorship of the Proletariat and did not cede power back to the worker's councils.

    Those countries never experienced Communism. They never even experienced socialism. They destroyed those statues because they hated The Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Living in a system designed for a short temporary economic boom for decades is no fun.