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2019-07-14 China-Japan-Koreas

Xi Jinping In Translation: China's Guiding Ideology

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Posted by Herb McCoy 2019-07-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top
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#1 Party members must be prepared to "sacrifice" (xīshēng) everything, up to their own blood

Everybody's else blood first?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-07-14 12:02|| 2019-07-14 12:02|| Front Page Top

#2 Interesting. I always saw Xi's State-Corporate machine as a kind of Taoist fascism. A come-what-may, pig-headed policy of expansion of capital and resources to the ends of the earth, in search of some abstruse idea of perfection.

What does Marx have to do with Zhongnanhai?

Very little. One must understand that all 'isms' are ultimately semantic excuses. Justifications and banners to unite the gullible masses behind some historic ideal or icon. What worked for a sick and beaten down China after Britain and Japan were through with her, was the 'revolutionary' theme.

Today, there's no revolution. It's a police state, like most other large states. They, like China claim to be based on true liberal socialist ideals, but are they ? In fact, there can be no such thing as a liberal state without the idea of 'res publica' as the substratum of Government.

Anything like China leads to heavy handedness and near fascist coercion. Ping's calls for faith and sacrifice are more attempts to reinforce the resolves of both the 'in-on-it' oligarchs and the loyal fascist gendarmerie towards a bitter time that has come their way. The circumlocution around marxist themes and merging Chinese ethos with communist ideal is just filibuster. It doesn't mean anything anymore, except a public relations exercise. I doubt Xinping ponders the specifics of the communist ideal himself, he seems to only care about "One nation under heaven". Now that's a typical, crude Chinese ideal.

All the domestic and external policies of China so far have been extremely materialist, with no care for the environment or even their own future generations, which the party sees as more fodder for the machine. It has spread and prospered unchecked, only thanks to the self obsessed, navel gazing democracies of the post-war world. It went on in its path to greatness because it said "Fuck Democracy" and thundered ahead at the cost of it's people, who by now must be quite expectant of the returns in their investment.

But thanks to a disruptive force growing called majoritarian government (that seeks to reverse pacifist, pansy policies of earlier regimes) in the world And it's everywhere, from the US to Italy and India , leaders are making changes to secure the continuity of resources and capital for their own people, and China sees it's momentum built on imaginary achievements and bullying others challenged.

In short, time has come for China to put their money where their bullshit spewing mouth is.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-07-14 12:18|| 2019-07-14 12:18|| Front Page Top

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