Totally. But being right isn’t enough. We have to assess what their actual options are, what they think their options are, what the masses think their options are, and how the contradictions that exist will create opportunities for consciousness raising, for organizing, for propaganda, for agitation, etc
Describe the shape of the problem first, let the solution emerge. Don’t try to be smart about coming up with solutions. Be smart about describing what is happening.
The US economy, and the Western economy more generally, is failing. Unemployment and underemployment are massive. Cost of living is out of control. The ecosystem is changing dramatically in ways that strongly affect human society.
The Democrats just won an electoral victory and have a particular narrative that will be shaped in the coming days and weeks.
BRICS is gaining economic leverage on the West every month. The US, however, has been doing what it can to disrupt them.
Maduro and his wife are still on US prisons. The US military is still the most vile force in the planet and still deployed and ready for devastating Iran. The Russo-Ukraine conflict is still raging and fuel and fertilizer are being threatened.
What was the harvest like this year in the northern hemisphere? What will see in the harvest in the southern hemisphere in 4-6 months? How will planting season go in the northern hemisphere?
We need to understand all of this and more if we’re going to have any success in advancing socialism. Yes, people need to be educated and their consciousness needs to be raised to understand their role in class society and the historical processes they participate in, but before educating, there must be a connection. We cannot make that connection without having a better understanding of the things impacting everyone’s lives and understanding where it’s going and what politicians might do next to prevent revolt.
The Ds might try some Keynesian intervention a la FDR. What might that look like and where will it struggle against the present where it did not 80 years ago? How does the propaganda of the intervention change people’s beliefs and how will the failings of that intervention be understood, explained away, and felt?
Describe the problem. The solutions will emerge from the problem, because solutions to problems are dialectical
Every action is material. Therefore every action fits within a causal framework. China speaking against Israel is a step up the escalation ladder. Once it happens, the West can respond, and they will, and it won’t be a deescalation. If they escalate, then China’s response changes the dynamics again. There are people employed by the CPC who spend their entire career thinking through the consequences here.
Your understanding of politics is about what one expect from an American high schooler. The UN resolution recognizing One China is very clear. The article about current day censorship in Taiwan is also very clear. The fact that it provides historical context does not mean Taiwan does not continue to do censorship.
Back when [Hong Kong] was cool
Was that before or after the British realized they had to develop an anti-communist movement in their, now former, colony. Presumably after. If you had family that had to flee, they were either European colonizers or they were working for the Europeans, either way, not exactly winning any points with anyone who understands history.
China doesn’t have a veto on recognizing countries because it’s not a function of the Security Council. You really should read about it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly_Resolution_2758_(XXVI)
More importantly Taiwan is de facto a country
I am very tired of this specious debate. No it’s not. There is no “facto” of being a country. There is only “jure”. Countries are fictions that are constructed socially by agreement, and the social agreements of the world are such that Taiwan is not a country. Hell, the social agreements of Taiwan itself throughout its entire history is that it is not a country. The only people who make the argument that Taiwan is “de facto” a country are anti-comnunists who believe it’s perfectly just to purge tens of thousands of political dissidents for 3 generations and then claim that public opinion is a valid and untainted method of determining correctness.
Your initial post was a bad attempt at propaganda, hilarious you accuse me of the same thing.
Oh. My. God. Are you actually that daft? Hotz posted an article. My original post, which was a comment, was a link to Wikipedia page and nothing else. Holy fucking shit. Journalism is what happens when a journalist writes an article describing something about the world. Propaganda is when that journalism commits hypocrisy via lies of ommission. Providing context for that hypocrisy, peer reviewed and sourced, is not a form of bad propaganda. It’s literally anti-propaganda.
Censorship in both countries, as well as personal freedoms are not the same. I would happily move to and live in Taiwan, I would never live in China for that reason.
No one gives a shit where you would choose to live. You don’t live in either of those places. Your entire basis for your supposed “preference” is narrative, not lived experience. Your preference is meaningless.
I sleep well at night knowing after Russia’s clusterfuck of an invasion of Ukraine, China would never be stupid enough to attempt the same in Taiwan.
I have been sleeping well at night for decades on this topic because China’s position on Taiwan has literally been the same for 50 fucking years - they will never invade Taiwan to force integration militarily. They will only invade Taiwan on two conditions that constitute a national security threat to China: 1) the advancement of foreign kill chains that leverage the province and 2) the political declaration of secession by the provincial government of Taiwan because that would trigger foreign powers to deploy their militaries at a scale which would threaten national security.
They have said this for literal decades. The policy has never changed. The preparations have never stopped. The vigilance against the US and UK military presence in the region has been unending. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has not changed China’s position at all.
Sorry but Taiwan has never been a country. The UN has recognized Taiwan as a province of China for over 50 years and it was a province of China for a couple centuries before that. There was a brief period of Japanese occupation, but never has it ever been a separate country. The reason Taiwan would censor things from the CPC are the exact same reasons the CPC would censor things from Taiwan. They are literally congruent and the only reason to focus on the censorship of one side over the other is if you believe one side to be the “good guys” and one side to be the “bad guys” which means you’re not doing journalism or even promoting journalism, you’re just assuming your preconceived notions and then spreading propaganda to support your position, which is something Hotznplotz is very well known for in the fediverse.
It’s called hypocrisy. Taiwan ALSO censors free speech today, blocking apps, blocking DeepSeek, preventing digital commerce, etc. Pretending that censorship ended after the fascists dropped martial law in 1987, or even after the first ever presidential election in 1996, is disingenuous.
No, the existing security gap between open source software and closed source software will grow, with closed source showing more vulnerabilities at unpredictable intervals as a.i. gets better at decompilation and fuzzing, while OSS will openly provide the source code allowing for faster finding and repairing of vulnerabilities earlier in the lifecycle