That's good to know but largely irrelevant anyway I rarely comment in this manner for the person I'm replying too its more for any third parties. As I understand it's more realistic for me to fly to America and lead a revolution than for an Internet exchange to educate someone directly.
You have quite the white savior complex, framing these countries as incapable of managing their own development and waiting for Western guidance. Your moral panic says far more about your own assumptions than it does about the reality of Chinese engagement in the Global South.
Chinese development loans under the Belt and Road Initiative are fundamentally different from imperialism. They are project-based, negotiated directly with sovereign governments, and aimed at infrastructure, energy, and industrial development. Loans are disbursed in stages, interest rates are often below market levels, and when repayment difficulties arise, debts are routinely restructured, extended, or forgiven. The recipient nations retain full agency over the projects and the terms, and no superprofits are extracted to enrich a foreign elite. This is a system of win-win development, not coercive exploitation.
Equating these loans with the immense suffering inflicted by Western imperialism on the periphery is morally and historically indefensible. Centuries of slavery, colonial plunder, and exploitative trade and debt regimes produced catastrophic human suffering and immense superprofits for imperial powers. To lump China’s mutually agreed, development-oriented loans in with that is tantamount to Holocaust denial or double genocide theory. It erases real violence and recasts historically victimized nations as somehow naive or weak while ignoring the agency and sovereignty they exercise today.
Your argument is not grounded in evidence. It is a recycled narrative from Western media and NGOs whose interest lies in discrediting non-Western development models and keeping formerly colonized nations dependent. Portraying China as “imperialist” in Africa is a story designed for Western moral comfort, not an assessment of real-world economic and political structures.
There would be something greatly ironic or at least beautifully poetic to the US imperialism bootlicking alliance (NATO) meeting its end due to US imperialism.
It would almost be comedic if the punchline wasnt obvious from the beginning to anyone who's done even a little bit of materialist analysis.
No. I don’t miss my father, I don’t miss my mother. Of course, we’re related by blood. We grew up in a society in which personal emotions are not encouraged. She does not remember my birthday. I never remember her birthday. We are not supposed to have any kind of self-indulgence.
"The communists stole my emotions with their big spoon."
Definitely at least a step in the right direction I look forward to seeing how they deal with the treatlerite horde and what they learned from the ups and crushing downs of the original BPP.
The denizens of the Burger Reich never cease to amaze me with their lack of ability to even attempt to understand anything that doesn't specifically and directly affect them as an individual.
If that's not bad enough on its own it was a comment on one of those posts claiming Iran killed a billionmillion protesters in 4 days. He's fantasizing about the violent deaths of tens of thousands of Chinese probably many more to put them under the imperial boot.
I think you misunderstand what I'm saying. Communist spaces are so sparse and niche online in comparison to lib or even fascist ones that seraching out a space by a Communist full of Communists and then complaining about all the Communists is ridiculous. It is not at all comparable to living in a world where capitalism and the "products of capitalism" are pervasive and often required to live in the modern age.
I would hope they are full of "tankies" if they claim to be communist. A communist platform without "tankies" is like claiming something to be an ocean despite it having no water.
Was lemmy not originally created by a communist? I feel coming to a website/websites made(possible) by a communist full of communists and then crying about all the tankies is sort of silly even in premise.