Generally yes, though she doesn’t seem to be one of the endlessly bad-faith types, just a bit stuck with Red Scare notions.

Here’s where they admit to it. They claim to have gotten better, but they were radicalized by it, and their behavior indicates that they haven’t actually moved too far beyond it, such as when they complain about “encountering wokeness.” In another instance, they blame far-right radicalization on “forcing equity,” which is just anti-DEI nonsense.

I brought it up because MWoG uses it as the community icon.

Again, your sources don’t seem to support what you’re saying, there isn’t widespread disapproval of the CPC. According to Harvard, support for the CPC is over 90%.

Again, the Soviets valued labor and the working class over all else. Chalk that up to them being naiive or whatnot, but that was the reasoning. Foreign governments were anti-Communist, not supporting the Socialist system, so if anything that points towards legitimacy.

As for the Trade Unions, I’m not sure what your point is. Are you saying you want them to not be allowed to be Communist? Genuinely confused here, I don’t know what your point is.

Mondragon isn’t outscaling large manufacturing, and the Spanish and Syrian Anarchists are violent revolutionaries, not your mythical peaceful ones.

Again, there is a case to be made of cooperative production with low barriers to entry for Capital, not for large-scale manufacturing, despite your insistence otherwise.

To defend non-citizens voting, the Soviets valued labor over nationalism and anyone could vote despite not being citizens if they worked there. Kinda like if the US allowed immigrants to vote who weren’t yet citizens.

Trade Unions were often independent as well. Really, the book itself is fascinating.

This isn’t historically accurate nor does it appear to be working. Building up dual power is a proven method of revolution, but it requires millitancy. We don’t actually have widespread examples of cooperative production outperforming organized industry, nor a reason to predict that will happen. FOSS has the foothold it does because the Capital required to build it is relatively inexpensive, but dogmatically transfering that to other industries goes against Dialectical Materialism.

Hexbear’s stance, and most Marxists in general, on Tian’anmen is that hundreds of protestors and PLA officers were killed in Beijing that day as the PLA advanced towards the square, but that the square itself was evacuated peacefully, which matches leaked US cables and the CPC’s official stance on what it calls the “June 4th incident”. This is a rejection of the commonly reported story of 10,000 people being killed on the square itself, which originated from a British diplomat’s cable. Said diplomat was later confirmed to have evacuated well before.

I reiterate, Hexbear’s stance isn’t that the massacre didn’t happen, but that Western nations intentionally sensationalize the quantity of deaths and the character of the events. This is also why Western Nations don’t frequently report on the South Korean Gwang-Ju massacre that occured around the same era, where the South Korean millitary murdered thousands of High School and College students protesting against Chun Do-Hwan’s dictatorship. All of what I said is backed up by the Wikipedia page for Tian’anmen Square Protests and Massacre, such as Alan Donald revising his estimate from 10,000 to the low thousands yet BBC continuing to report the 10,000 figure:

In a disputed cable sent in the aftermath of the events at Tiananmen, British Ambassador Alan Donald initially claimed, based on information from a “good friend” in the State Council of China, that a minimum of 10,000 civilians died,[237] claims which were repeated in a speech by Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke,[238] but which is an estimated number much higher than other sources provided.[239][240] After the declassification, former student protest leader Feng Congde pointed out that Donald later revised his estimate to 2,700–3,400 deaths, a number closer to, but still much higher than, other estimates.[241]

As for the DPRK, I’d have to see what you mean as an example. The common consensus is that the DPRK has a well-documented “defector storytelling industry” where defectors are paid for outlandish stories, and due to their unverifiability gets passed on as truth. A good documentary on this subject is Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul. Therefore, really, very little can be trusted on the subject. Brutal executions being reported such as one official being eaten to death by 120 dogs end up being reported uncritically, despite said official turning up alive later and the story originating from a Chinese satirical column, akin to the Onion.

This is where the joke of “Juche Necromancy” comes from, because supposedly executed officials regularly turn up alive.

Yea, not the first time the US doing something stupid blew back in its face.

A time-honored tradition.

Really wholesome to see USians and Chinese citizens interact. Sadly, this means the US will step in any minute to move forward with stopping this.

Do you think the entire production process of Fairphone is cooperative? Further, Fairphone is nowhere near on track to destabilize the larger firms like Samsung and Apple that wield immense power as owners of hundreds of billions of dollars of industrial Capital, who can always outcompete. To overthrow Capital, you need revolution.

As for Engels, I think if you’re trying to twist him into somehow being in favor of a cooperative-based economy without revolution and that you’ve successfully applied Dialectical Materialism, I encourage you to read Anti-Dühring, where Engels applies Dialectical and Historical Materialism to take down such a system as Utopian. You don’t have to agree with Engels, but to twist him into being in favor of Agorism is odd.

As for me applying Dialectical Materialism, such a system has no roots in popular trajectory of the evolution of Capitalism, which has proven the dominance of the centralizing nature of Capitalism. Better to sieze and democratize so we can produce along a common plan for the common good.

Wikipedia actually doesn’t state that it was chinese users that started it, just that the Chinese internet started taking the comparisons down (same with all of the articles I found and the ones Wikipedia references as sources). Additionally, the original image of Xi and Obama together as Pooh and Tigger, and the subsequent picture of Xi and Shinzo Abe as Pooh and Eeyore, emerged as group pictures of world leaders, but only the comparison of Xi to Pooh stuck.

Further, that doesn’t explain the immense popularity among westerners in portraying Xi as a yellow bear, nor why it seems to be especially popular among western right-wingers.

Curiously enough, MWoG is maintained by a gamergater. Curious indeed.

Yep, calling out the bigoted left-punchers helps call into question their unsourced claims, and pressures moderators into cleaning up the bigotry. It’s a win-win.

How do you P2P a smartphone factory? Are you trying to suggest we revert to less developed production methods and reject manufacturing?

Secondly, you’re not understanding the critique of Utopianism at all, Utopianism is specifically when your model building becomes the focus and thus you separate it from sociological analysis. You should read the essay I linked, you’d benefit from it greatly.

Quick question, what’s the humor in satarizing a Chinese man as a yellow bear, specificially? Why not a Panda?

Disgusting behavior, sorry to hear that. For some reason these accounts seem to stay up despite being reported constantly.

Coding is only one aspect of Capital, the overwhelming majority of necessities runs on industrial Capital. You can’t P2P that, just like you can’t torrent food or a brand new phone.

As for Utopianism, it refers to “model building,” ie trying to think of a perfect society and trying to convince everyone to adopt it, rather than analyzing existing society and its trajectories to predict what can come next. It’s like trying to completely reinvent computers, rather than looking at how they exist and trying to use that knowledge to make a better system. I suggest reading Socialism: Utopian and Scientific for why Utopianism is largely looked down upon by practicing Leftists, Marxist and Anarchist alike.

100%. Leate in particular has a nasty habit of suicide baiting and blocking anyone who calls them out, DM harrassment, and more. The loudest complainers about Hexbear are overwhelmingly the ones who got banned for bigotry, which they think they can hide by not mentioning that factor.

Leate’s modlog is filled with homophobia and transphobia under the guise of being an ally, this is a pattern and not a one-off.