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politics @lemmy.world•MAGA declares war on the Catholic ChurchEnglish
1·4 days agoI am pretty sure being head the Vatican would be considered foreign nobility for purposes of the constitution.
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World News@lemmy.world•China’s low rights model goes global: Beijing's manufacturing dominance is based on weaker protections for workers, communities, and the environment. Not it's exporting that model.English
1·7 days agoWe are in agreement on many topics. Where we diverge is in the mythologizing of deterministic western fascism without making the same potential attribution to failures at implementing socialism. This is, simply put, a failure at critical analysis. History has seen both cases. The idea that the Chinese system is the answer to, or even a protective force relative to western imperialism, simply because it exists as an alternative, is flawed reasoning. I would even say dangerous reasoning. The path forward is understanding and learning from the failure and success in all systems through history. In China’s case, a big part of that is literally the inability to discuss its failures. And I’m not just talking about the legal state of China itself, but also the broad hesitancy to acknowledge this as a failure within leftist circles.
These acknowledgements do not collapse any house of cards unless it has been built on fragile ground in the first place.
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World News@lemmy.world•China’s low rights model goes global: Beijing's manufacturing dominance is based on weaker protections for workers, communities, and the environment. Not it's exporting that model.English
2·7 days agoYou are doing the age old ML trick of attaching the rights which convey political agency to a specific historical epoch of economic liberalism. If we are to understand that the Chinese socialism is a process which inherently must navigate through flaws and imperfections of the material conditions it is dealt, then surely we much acknowledge the same of the western struggle. And yes, it is a struggle all the same, albeit from a position of historical privilege.
In reality there is nothing about the enshrinement of individual rights which requires or implies capitalism or imperialism, other than historical snapshot these things have been attached to. It is no more correct than saying all socialism requires autocracy. In fact, we have an entire century of revisionist thinking which modifies Marx with this specific goal in mind. So just as China approaches this struggle from a more Orthodox perspective inspired by Lenin and molded by a period of historical oppression (itself a bit or a contradiction given China’s broader history), the west’s struggle is throwing off the shackles of its comparative success and influence which binds it to so much old world influence. Both molded by imperialism in different ways. Both currently stuck in a vicious cycle of capitalism, thrust on them by material reality.
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World News@lemmy.world•China’s low rights model goes global: Beijing's manufacturing dominance is based on weaker protections for workers, communities, and the environment. Not it's exporting that model.English
21·7 days agoIf the proletariat is the class that benefits from their own work and the government has their popular support, is this really the red fash, authoritarian exploitation that the other comments and western media assume it to be
Yes, because without basic political rights which do not exist in China, Chinese workers have no political agency by which they can express a political preference. It is entirely possible that given such freedoms, the Chinese people would implement the exact same system of government they have now, but there is no way to know that since the functional basis for political self determination does not exist.
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Easy way to remember the OSI modelEnglish
1·13 days agoPlease do not touch Sally’s pretty anus.

Literally nothing of consequence has been built with visual, mda or no-code paradigms.