MasterDeeLuke

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[–] MasterDeeLuke@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 days ago

Just read up on Xi's anti-corruption campaign, while it wasn't explicitly an ideological purge it's pretty clear that those that it removed weren't exactly devoted marxists.

[–] MasterDeeLuke@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 days ago

He just seems a little more pro-private enterprise then I feel comfortable with. He at least seems competent and I don't think he is an outright revisionist like Gorbachev, but enough to make me skeptical.

[–] MasterDeeLuke@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 4 days ago (4 children)

There are some revisionist elements in the CPC (I'm wary of Li Qiang for example) but I definitely wouldn't call Xi a revisionist. His installment as General Secretary was more or less an orthodox marxist coup against revisionist Shanghai politicians.

[–] MasterDeeLuke@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 5 days ago

Maybe Milei was a comrade playing 4D chess all along. Crash the economy as hard as possible while bootlicking the US as hard as possible to get them to throw all their money into saving a sinking ship.

[–] MasterDeeLuke@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 1 week ago

American politicians: "We may have our differences, but it's important that we are still able to come together and unite as one."

The differences: