• determinism2 [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    I’m not sure the Chinese are taking global warming seriously. It’s equally likely they saw a market they could dominate and become the worlds supplier. Which they have done.

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      If only there was a way to check what the Chinese government plans to do in the medium and long term, like say a 5 year and 20 year outlook on where they want to go. You could even compare their current plans and how well they’ve accomplished past ones to get a sense of what to expect going forward. But alas.

      i-love-not-thinking

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      This is partly why I don’t believe in “brainwashing”. They reflect their class interests on the world stage as defenders of Western Hegemony and selectively use narratives (intelligently though malevolently) as a license for bigotry.

      And it is why I may be increasingly disillusioned with Westerners’ (whatever the melanin concentration) collective revolutionary potential; this may be revealing, however, my lack of education in understanding where revolutionary potential may be (ie a class expansionist perspective and looking beyond the simplistic dichotomy of bourgoisie vs proleteriat).