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Yes, and after time on RedNote, I believe it's because of them simply believing what western media says about it, but since they're not also living in it, they don't get to also see the negatives.
I met a Chinese exchange student at my local college Palestine encampment last year. He was finishing up his masters and was about to go back to China after having been here a few years. He said in China he was a pro-west liberal who thought Marxism was outdated and the party was silly, but after seeing America in such detail he became a dedicated Marxist-Leninist and anti-imperialist who wore a hammer and sickle medallion everywhere and was planning to join the party when he returned. I hope he followed through.
Sweet arc. Reminds me of the story Parenti tells about ppl in the soviet bloc hoping that with the fall of the USSR, that they would gain the consumer cornucopia of the west, but get to keep all the social services, job security, and quality of life they had gained through socialism (they didn't gain the first, and lost the 2nd).
This comrade got to see first hand the US's horrible inequality and poverty, and that the chinese marxists were correct.
Yeah, I majorly misunderstood the graphic, thank you
Either you're misunderstanding this or I'm misunderstanding you. This is showing that people in China believe the PRC is very democratic and therefore they support it, not that they envy western "democracy". The Chinese people enjoy far more democracy than people in the imperial core.
OOOOOOH, yes, I misunderstood