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  • The West sees itself as the continuation of the Nazis. Most of Europe’s elites have Nazi or Nazi collaborator ancestry and they still dream of doing to Russia what their grandfathers couldn’t. The Nazis united Europe to wage a war of annihilation against the USSR. The NATO and the EU are nothing more than the ideological continuation of the Reich, this time under Anglo leadership, and just like the Nazis they see it as their holy mission to unite Europe under their hegemony and marshall its resources to destroy and colonize Russia. They have already succeeded in taking over large parts of the USSR. NATO eastward expansion is simply Operation Barbarossa 2.0.




  • I get what you’re trying to say, but i’m not sure the meme format fits the message. We’re not rejecting the above in favor of communism, because all those things come with communism. You said as much in the title but the meme itself could still be misleading to someone who doesn’t read the title.





  • After Tiananmen they can’t believe in #1

    But they did. For a long time they still believed that they could do achieve their goals in China via a slower more subversive approach than the overt 1989 color revolution attempt, via gradual elite corruption and infection with liberal ideology.

    This is why up until the “pivot to Asia” happened you still had fairly positive coverage of China in the Western media and cultural sphere. In the 90s and 00s China was portrayed relatively positively in the media. The war propaganda faucet to demonize and dehumanize Chinese people in the eyes of Westerners was only turned on relatively recently.

    If they really thought there was no hope of regime change after 1989 they would have started this much earlier when China was much weaker. They didn’t because they didn’t understand China (they still don’t) and they deluded themselves into thinking things were still going their way.

    #2 is possible but requires that the elite mistakes money for power

    Well, that is how they think. But that’s not the point that was being made. The point is that the logic of capitalism made it impossible for them to resist outsourcing to China, because the profits were too juicy to pass up. China understood this and took full advantage of it.

    By the time the western elites noticed their catastrophic strategic mistake it was too late. Now they are panicking and for the last decade or so have been scrambling to try and find a way to reverse what has happened before the window of opportunity permanently closes.

    Hence their increasingly reckless and self-harming escalations, with Ukraine, Taiwan, now Iran… They feel they are out of time and nothing is working anymore so they have to constantly take crazier and crazier gambles in hopes of digging themselves out of the hole.




  • Finally someone saying something sensible and rational. Enough of this emotional overreaction that we’ve been seeing from a few of the comrades! It’s not helping anyone or anything, it’s just a way to make yourself feel better, but it’s selfish and short-sighted. It’s sad because until recently Zei had a track record of very good posts, but unfortunately it seems the stress has gotten to them.

    Everyone needs to take a minute to think calmly and soberly about what kind of messaging actually benefits the cause vs what is just doing the work of the enemy for them. If some people can’t control their emotions that’s understandable and human, these are stressful times, but doomposting is not going to achieve anything. But they should do their comrades a favor and sit this one out, take a break from posting and go outside. Take the advice of the OP in the screenshots here, start thinking about how to organize and agitate against the empire’s war. Stop trying to make prophecies and start working to influence the course of events in whatever way you can. Nothing is inevitable. We have agency.


  • I have to admit i hoped for something that was more quintessentially Chinese when i read the headline. This is pretty clearly inspired by western Renaissance art styles in the choice of pose and colors, the way the fabric is rendered, etc. It’s obviously deliberately reminiscent of traditional Virgin Mary paintings. I dig the anti-consumerist twist though, with all the unnecessary “bling”. Not sure if I like the facelessness. It underscores the message but it’s off-putting. Maybe that’s the point.

    I don’t know, i’ve never been a big art critic. I just know what i like and what i don’t like and this one doesn’t do it for me. It reminds me too much of the West’s cultural hegemony in art, like when Asian composers feel they have to write music that follows all the conventions of classical European music in order to be taken seriously, instead of drawing on their own countries’ musical traditions which the western culture snobs view as inferior to “real art”… that sort of thing always gives me the ick.


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    Minimalism is a psyop to encourage more fast turnover consumerism, similar to the “fast fashion” psyop. Throw away things then buy more then throw them away again to buy more again.

    Even after they became affordable for the masses people still historically cherished possessions like books and passed them on to their children. They are not disposable, consumable commodities and i’m not going to let anyone gaslight me with their new age faux philosophy into treating them that way.

    I’d rather re-read a book i’ve already read five times before, than buy a new book every other week just because i enjoy reading a lot and i’ve stupidly thrown away my old books.

    If space becomes a problem i just expand my e-book collection instead (and in a way such that i actually have the file on my computer, not rented from some online service that at any time can take away my access to books that i bought and was supposed to own).



  • It’s undeniable that there was a massive improvement and a lot of investment into restoring and developing the area, but i think the first picture is still sort of misleading.

    There seems to be a filter on it that makes it look more bleak than it actually was. Also, i doubt that it was taken at the same time of year in the same kind of weather. If you photograph the same area on a cloudy day during winter or late fall when the trees are bare and the grass dead, it will look very different than a photo taken of the exact same location on a sunny summer day when everything is green.

    This is a common trick that western media employ when they want to portray communist or former communist countries as dystopian, run-down, or dirty. They purposely pick a time of year when things just naturally look worse. This works especially well in Russia for example where in spring after the snow melts the streets get super messy and muddy but it’s still too early for the vegetation to have come back to life.

    Not saying that this is necessarily the case here. We all know that China’s overall conditions were much worse even just a few decades ago. There was a lot more smog, much less care taken for the environment, the focus was all on rapid development with little regard for the negative side-effects. That has now drastically changed with the “Green Hills and Clear Waters” policy direction under Xi Jinping.

    This is a great example of China’s positive improvements and environmentally conscious development. But one should still be skeptical when seeing such drastic differences.


  • Doesn’t matter. I say this same thing to Trots when they rant about a piece having been written by “Dengist Stalinists”, if it’s not the explicit topic of the article please stick to criticizing the actual content itself. There is a time and place for Stalin vs Trotsky debates but most of the time that is just distraction and a waste of time.

    Everyone knows that the WSWS is a Trot publication. Yes it is annoying how often they compulsively insert needless and unrelated anti-Stalin rants into their pieces. This is not one of those. Sometimes they put out genuinely good pieces that deserve to be read and shared. Take good analysis wherever you find it.