Socialist Alternative publishes "China collapsing any day now" article.
Socialist Alternative publishes "China collapsing any day now" article.
2023 was a disastrous year for the economy and for Xi Jinping’s regime. 2024 is already shaping up to be worse. China has not been rocked by major protests since the short-lived 2022 movement. These protests were crushed by a wave of arrests but not before bringing about the collapse of Xi Jinping’s brutal zero-COVID policy.
What is the point of being Socialist if you're just going to parrot this shit?
brutal zero-COVID policy
brutality is when you don't want to let a deadly disease kill millions of innocent people
That's what you get when your "reporting" is just re-hashing mainstream media
Are the protests rocking China a reference to a real thing?
Yes, there were big protests against Zero Covid after a while. The absurd thing about the narrative of it being "brutal" and "totalitarian" is that the Zero Covid policies were all carried out by neighborhood volunteer organizations, not the police or the military. When the protests started, the central government quickly realized that the only way to keep enforcing it would be through the kind of overwhelming police crackdown that the western press imagined was happening, so they ended the policy instead. What happened does possibly signal a new future for Chinese politics, but not for the reasons that this article or the liberal western press says:
Afaik there were several protests in cities where the quarantine was handled poorly, more a "where is the food you promised us" and less "we hate your entire government"
This reads like a Breitbart article
Bro, wtf is it with trots? I bought a book recently about trans history and politics, and it's written by trots.
90% of the book is fine. Good, even! But there's a chapter going over a brief history of transness, and there's a subsection called "Totalitarian transphobia" and it talks about Paragraph 175 under the Nazis, rollbacks on queer rights under Stalin, and the continuation of paragraph 175 in West Germany. So far, nothing objectionable.
But then it gets to East Germany, which repealed Paragraph 175 decades before the west, and made great strides in queer rights for the time. East Germany is such an interesting, complex, nuanced, and fascinating part of socialist and queer history. And how does this book handle it?
One paragraph that says "East Germany repealed Paragraph 175 much sooner than the west. But gay men were still arbitrarily imprisoned under stalinist rule".
BABE, WHAT? I get it, Trots have to label any ML socialist project as "Stalinist". It's a thought terminating cliche of theirs. But there's such an interesting contradiction in that sentence, and there's zero attempt to explore it's ramifications.
On the one hand, I respect my Trot comrades for their commitment to genuine labor militancy. But holy shit do they such a deep disinterest in grappling with any leftist tendency outside of their own, in good faith.
what book was it
It's called Transgender Resistance: Socialism and The Fight for Trans Liberation by Laura Miles
I don't wanna completely rag on this book, Chapter 6: Trans Voices Around The World, for example, is genuinely really good, and brings into focus the histories and experiences of trans people in the global south.
Something that a book like Transgender Warriors by Leslie Feinberg only briefly touches upon, outside of its main narrative, via pictures and short captions.
Speaking of Feinberg, this really gets me about Trot cognitive dissonance about "Stalinism". The book makes regular (and tbh unavoidable, given their importance) reference to Feinberg. And for that matter Sylvia Rivera is on the front cover.
Feinberg was in the Workers World Party, and Rivera was in the Young Lords. They're exactly the "Stalinists" the author condems in that subsection that I was complaining about! Yet they're on the cover of the book, and peppered throughout the reference notes, without a hint of irony.
Tbh it's a result of the western leftist cult of failure, that pervades everything. The best movements are the ones that are pure. Pure movements lost, and thus never had to contend with the complexities of actually governing. So a "stalinist" movement that never succeeded can be claimed as pure and good, rather than evil and totalitarian, despite them literally sharing an ideology.
"Oh God NO!! They...have enough stuff"Scarcity mindset west
vs abundance mindset China 
Having more houses then needed isn’t a bad thing.
A surplus of goods is literally the foundation of communism, so good job China. Of course the US would smear that, for neoliberalism the foundation is something like a scarcity of housing thus driving up demand for housing and the profits of the rentier class.
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I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
SocialistLiberal AlternativeSA plz why you gotta be like that
Its literally their name, an alternative to socialism..
Comparing China and Japan is so silly.
Trots do trot shit
They were against China's COVID measures. So, this doesn't surprise me.
Wtf... Trots aren't usually like that shit...
Sure, they're 'anti-Stalinists', which makes them anti-Marxist Leninist, by a nature and co-optable by the western imperialists... but they usually have more self-respect to stick to their own lane and criticize these western powers and capitalism, if not praise some elements of AES...
Australian Labor government announces major naval build-up directed against China
WORKPLACE SAFETY NOW BETTER IN CHINA THAN IN AUSTRALIA - Trotskyist platform
Then again, that's only some Trots...
Trot moment
Is investing in China's manufacturing a good thing to do with money?
I am by no means a finance guy, but I would assume that would have been something to do in the 80s-90s. Now I think the thing to do is to invest in whatever nations China is assisting with their belt and road initiative. Like I said tho I have nothing to base that off of other than intuition.
Did ISA hire Gordon Chang or something, lmao
