The best and most comprehensive resource I have seen so far is Qiao Collective’s Xinjiang: A Resource and Report Compilation. Qiao Collective is explicitly pro-PRC, but this is an extremely comprehensive write-up of the entire background of the events, the timeline of reports, and real and fake claims.
Look up Assata Shakur, and read Assata: An Autobiography.
Didn’t bother watching, more of the same, I assume?
What do you mean? Are you saying Trump is allied with the global south?
“Death camps?” Are you referring to the soviet prisons in general as “death camps?” An enormous number of prison deaths occured during World War II, when famine was widespread due to the Nazis storming Ukraine, the USSR’s breadbasket. On the whole, soviet prisons and the justice system itself were more progressive than their peers, Mary Stevenson Callcott documented it quite well in Russian Justice.
The soviet union, despite having a progressive legal system, was in a state of constant turmoil caused by pressures both external and internal. They couldn’t simply delete all previously existing ruling-class people and ideology, class struggle continues under socialism. Further, pressure from the imperialist west, invasion both in threat and in action, and intentional sabateurs meant that the prisons certainly weren’t empty. The soviet union never had a single year of normal, stable growth, free from intense opposition on the outside and counter-revolutionary forces on the inside.
How so? I directly answered your claims of Uyghur genocide, and directly pointed out your dehumanization of communists. Do you have anything beyond dehumaniziation of communists and vague accusations with no sources?
Dehumanizing communists, classic fash behavior.
There is no genocide of Uyghurs. Uyghur genocide atrocity propaganda akin to claiming that there’s “white genocide” in South Africa, Christian genocide in Nigeria, or that Hamas sexually assaulted babies in Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.
In the case of Xinjiang, the area is crucial in the Belt and Road Initiative, so the west backed sepratist groups in order to destabilize the region. China responded with vocational programs and de-radicalization efforts, which the west then twisted into claims of “genocide.” Nevermind that the west responds to seperatism with mass violence, and thus re-education programs focused on rehabilitation are far more humane, the tool was used both for outright violence by the west into a useful narrative to feed its own citizens.
The best and most comprehensive resource I have seen so far is Qiao Collective’s Xinjiang: A Resource and Report Compilation. Qiao Collective is explicitly pro-PRC, but this is an extremely comprehensive write-up of the entire background of the events, the timeline of reports, and real and fake claims.
I also recommend reading the UN report and China’s response to it. These are the most relevant accusations and responses without delving into straight up fantasy like Adrian Zenz, professional propagandist for the Victims of Communism Foundation, does.
Tourists do go to Xinjiang all the time as well. You can watch videos like this one on YouTube, though it obviously isn’t going to be a comprehensive view of a complex situation like this.
I’m desparate to stop genocide, while you seem happy to stand back and watch it happen. Personally, I think it’s more extremist to sit back and watch genocide than to try to stop it.
Germany is actively supplying the IDF with weapons used to murder hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. By taking an inactive stance, saying you support neither Palestine nor Israel, you are just watching Germany help slaughter hundreds of thousands of innocents. You’re a Zionist, plain and simple, and it isn’t due to emotions but due to your deliberate inaction.
If you’ve ever wondered what you would be doing if you lived during the reign of the Nazis and the Holocaust, you’re doing it now. Your country is facilitating genocide and you’re busy trying to paint the resistance to genocide as terrorists so as to justify the genocide.
You support Israel by not supporting Palestine. I support Palestnian liberation and Palestinians, not Zionism and genocide like you do. Pretty clear-cut. You have to understand the Nakba, the deals the founding Zionists made with the Nazis, the role Israel plays today with respect to western interests, and more.
Every word I said was true, you’re repeating blatant hasbara.
Also I don’t support the current governments killing spree.
You do, by supporting Israel’s right to exist. Israel is a settler-colony on stolen land, it has to commit genocide in order to exist.
But Hamas is much longer a terror organisation that has the goal of destroying all Jews.
Hamas’ goal is Palestinian liberation, and their enemy is not Jewish people, but Israel as a genocidal settler-colony. Hamas was formed as a response to genocide.
Also all surrounding countries support the suffering of the Palestinians. It helps them fighting Israel without actually going to war against them.
This is a conspiracy theory. Surrounding areas oppose Israel and support Palestinian liberation because Israel is a terrorist micro-state. The purpose of Israel is to fight enemies of western imperialism in West Asia.
Egypt could just let people leave the Gaza strip. Many want to flee. But Egypt needs Gaza to hurt Israel, so they don’t let anyone through.
In other words, you’re saying Palestinians should leave and let their land be fully colonized. Egypt is absolutely complicit, but your argument is that Palestinians should flee their land and that it’s rightfully Israel’s.
No wonder Feddit.org was defederated by dbzer0 for being infested with Zionists.
Israel can only exist by murdering Palestinians and stealing their land. Hamas is a reaction to settler-colonial genocide, and this genocide is materially aided by Germany. Germany can stop supplying Israel with tools for genocide.
The PRC is socialist, public ownership is the principle aspect of the economy and the working classes control the state. Communism is a post-socialist mode of production that has not existed yet.
This is vibes-based.
Capitalism brought with it skyrocketing poverty rates, drug abuse, prostitution, homelessness, crime rates, and lowered life expectancy. An estimated 7 million people died due to the dissolution of socialism in the USSR. There’s no fetish here, but instead a dedication to historical accuracy and fighting for a better world, where humanity organizes production and distribution to suit the needs of the people instead of the profits of the few.
It likely isn’t worth continuing to argue on your end if you’re going to stick with anecdote as your sole method of argumentation, and accuse me of having a fetish for bringing sources to back up my points.
I started reading theory because I’m working class. I already hated capitalism, but didn’t understand the ways it works or what needs to be done to establish socialism. I wrote a basic ML study guide if anyone wants a place to start!
I wrote a basic ML study guide if anyone wants a place to start!
I love~ your actual historical evidence.
Life expectancy from birth:
Literacy rates, societal guarantees in the 1936 constitution, reports on the healthcare system over time, and more.
The USSR brought dramatic democratization to society. First-hand accounts from Statesian journalist Anna Louise Strong in her book This Soviet World describe soviet elections and factory councils in action. Statesian Pat Sloan even wrote Soviet Democracy to describe in detail the system the soviets had built for curious Statesians to read about, and today we have Professor Roland Boer’s Socialism in Power: On the History and Theory of Socialist Governance to reference.
When it comes to social progressivism, the soviet union was among the best out of their peers, so instead we must look at who was actually repressed outside of the norm. In the USSR, it was the capitalist class, the kulaks, the fascists who were repressed. This is out of necessity for any socialist state. When it comes to working class freedoms, however, the soviet union represented a dramatic expansion. Soviet progressivism was documented quite well in Albert Syzmanski’s Human Rights in the Soviet Union.
Supply issues in the USSR were magnified by sanctions and recovery from taking by far the biggest hit in World War II. When looked at from its historical progress, the USSR was a system of dramatic, rapid development and improvement that was under siege for its entire existence. It never once had a year of “normal” development, nor was it allowed to.
Any shortcomings compared to western, imperialist countries need to be analyzed with the context that the USSR was developing from utter immiseration under the tsar. The USSR did not fall from tsarism, but rose from tsarism as its base level of development. Tsarist Russia was not a peer country of the west, so the idea that the west having better access to luxuries than the USSR isn’t a point against it.
The rest of your comment is a personal anecdote, which can be dismissed incredibly easy as such.
I’m still glad the CCCP dissolved. I will not argue that Russia is better after that, because it didn’t change for the better, but here I’m much happier
This really says it all, doesn’t it? Russia is worse off for the adoption of capitalism and the dissolution of socialism, but you in particular are happier about it. Love your reasoning, being essentially having access to western commodities.
The USSR wasn’t “broken systematically,” nor was it a “shithole.” Those are better descriptors for Russia under tsarism and capitalism than under socialism. Following actual historical evidence, the USSR had steady and consistent economic growth, and provided free, high quality education and healthcare, full employment, cheap or free housing, and fantastic infrastructure and city planning. This rapid development resulted in dramatic democratization of society, reduced disparity, doubling of life expectancy, tripling of functional literacy rates to 99.9%, and much more.
The truth, when judged based on historical evidence and contextualization, is that socialism was the best thing to happen to Russia in the last few centuries, and its absence has been devastating.
Please, president Xi, my people yearn for liberation