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@gayocats this could be us

can’t say that quite as confidently now given recent developments but

lmao literally the next paragraph after i stopped to post that: “While the Chinese government continues under a nominally communist leadership, the process of private capital penetration goes on more or less unhindered”

what i understand is that (until recently) China has had a considerably more peaceful relationship to capitalism after opening up to foreign investment and adopting markets internally (leading to the understandable analysis that its Communist party was/is a misnomer, which frankly i don’t think i know well enough to comment on), and given in 2020 that its trajectory is toward that of a global power, i do wonder if that complicates Parenti’s point a bit

then again the US wants war now so

reading Michael Parenti’s Blackshirts & Reds; it makes the pretty straightforward but evergreen point i’ve definitely seen elsewhere, that socialist countries always face non-peaceful relationships with global capitalism and the US in particular; i do note the book does not discuss the (at the time (1997), contemporary!) political strategies of China after Mao

https://twitter.com/FrYonni/status/1466220520794435586 lmao

@Lady ah!

reading books is slow going, i just keep thinkimh about completely unrelated shit instead

@Lady yeah i got that, but i remembered you saying you were single, so

@gayocats kitty

@Lady am i missing a pun or

@Lady you have an s/o?

at least it will have Appealing Production Design

but like
why

why is Spielberg remaking West Side Story

any of ny’all ever just https://twitter.com/CatChangelog/status/1466048476505120771

@gayocats good kitty

https://twitter.com/CatWorkers/status/1466101468541378574

@netkitty prrrrrrrrr ​

@netkitty yes pls ​

@Zest makes a taunt with no problem… that’s a good clip right there