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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”

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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

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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

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

at least it will have Appealing Production Design

but like
why

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re: the editor of current affairs continues to build ever more deluxe mansions inside my head 

every now and then we remember there’s a short book that we remembered being good about how bill clinton absolutely fucking sucked and well. then we remember who wrote it lol

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the editor of current affairs continues to build ever more deluxe mansions inside my head 

🎵 it’s less fun with NJR! 🎵

remember the :cat_tilting_head:​ timing of Riot’s branding change to Element

annoying that element still doesn’t allow searching encrypted rooms on mobile

i don't know why @gayocats stopped posting for a bit but restarting it worked?? so uh

seeing cert problems with cat.family IMAP and i think that means i forgot to restart dovecot

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