BlackLotus

No one considers Pol Pot a communist, but go hard at revealing your obviously propagandized mind.

Because this place is based and people here can read. Illiteracy is the best weapon of anti-communists because if people can't read, they often can't educate themselves that communism is the obviously better system.

lol, blaming tankies for this is hilarious.

Are you like 12 years old? You definitely act like it.

Ok, you're still just one anecdotal source and therefore it proves nothing.

Even if it did, none of this proves the original OP's claims that it is Xi's dictatorial powers that caused it.

It also wouldn't prove it's true throughout the entire country.

But feel free to keep jacking yourself off over having some anecdotal claims and expecting anyone to take it as if it's reliable information to extrapolate throughout the country.

Yeah, I think you're right here, and I'll make recommendations accordingly in the future.

To be clear, I mean no offense here, but I have no clue who you are nor any reason to trust your anecdotal experience. You might full well be telling me the truth, but it hardly qualifies as evidence sufficient for the claims being made.

Giving you the benefit of the doubt, though, you must understand that we are so heavily propagandized here in the West, that literally nothing we hear about the anti-imperialist parts of the world is trustworthy. Unless it's good. We can be pretty confident that anything they say about China that's good is true, but any responsible analysis of the Western media requires a close eye.

As the thread elsewhere stated, we still don't even have a problem with the works being mandatory, but the fact is that the sources provided simply do not remotely prove the claims. Especially the "dictatorial power" nonsense that's just patently untrue. That's not how the CPC works. It wasn't how the CCCP worked in the USSR either, and the West always claimed the USSR worked with "dictatorial power."

Admittedly, Stalin had additional powers during WW2, but in order to defeat the Nazis, that seemed like a necessary and justifiable step. FDR also had additional powers during WW2, and he trampled all over the rights of innocent Japanese people living in the US, for example, putting them in concentration camps by another name, internment camps.

Personally, I'd love to have a book from the owners of JPMorgan Chase and such that explained what they're trying to do with the current rendition of capitalism. I bet it would be hilariously contradictory. At least in socialism people can set reliable plans in motion that persist and don't wander every 4 years from one calamity into another.

Hakim is great, good rec.

For sure, I honestly wouldn't care, but showcasing that there aren't reliable sources making these claims helps to dispell the Western myths about AES.

Imagine if I complained every time my Western education forced me to read some stupid propaganda. It'd be a lot more problematic than something like The Governance of China by Xi Jinping.

Stuff like 1984 and Animal Farm, literal garbage written by George Orwell, the traitor so dumb that he effectively spied for British intelligence. Nonsense like "States' Rights" as an explanation for the US Civil War.

Cool, so this supports that it's being integrated into the curriculum, but I'm not seeing any mention that it's mandatory. Thanks for adding that source, though, it definitely illuminates some detail.

So do you have any on it being "mandatory" and "his dictatorial powers" or were those assumptions you made?

If, for example, I integrate a chemistry book into the chemistry curriculum, it's only "mandatory" if it's a required class and only for the category of people for which that class is required. So if this is being integrated into college Marxism courses, it's only mandatory for people who are required to take those Marxism courses.

That might be everyone - I'm not saying it definitely isn't, but just because it's integrated into the curriculum does not provide evidence that it's mandatory.

They are absolutely an attempt at socialism. To be clear, no one is saying criticism is unacceptable. To deny them as being socialist is just dogmatic. They're no more authoritarian than any Western country anyway.

Sure. I'll edit the original and list them here, too:

• Capital by Karl Marx
• On Authority by Friedrich Engels
• Principles of Communism by Friedrich Engels
• Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State by Friedrich Engels
• Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti
• State and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin
• What is to be Done by Vladimir Lenin