When you've got a gun to your head fawning behaviour is an expected behaviour. Trump loves these completely free and easy signs of deference, and I bet it helps negotiations with these assholes.
I suppose what needs to be asked here is why do the coastal regions seem to have far more organised communists than the rural regions?
Would rural people appreciate or listen to communists that moved there just to try and agitate them toward communism?
What about what few comrades exist within these rural areas? How many of them have tried to organise rural folk but failed?
This position gets floated a lot in UK spaces as well, that comrades from London ought to be airdropped into the forgotten and left behind parts of Britain where community barely exists and there is no work whatsoever to do. There is a reason there are more communists in urban centres with more proletarian work available.
No claims as to how many people this method has actually helped claim asylum successfully, just some anecdotes. If staying on in work after coming to study here is so hard that they're requiring international students to claim asylum in increasingly hare-brained schemes then that's surely the Home Office opening themselves up to this stupidity instead of just making it easier to emigrate after studying.
This could well be just as pathetic an attempt at journalism by the BBC as their Panorama on ADHD diagnoses which completely fucked a load of people over who were genuinely suffering with the disorder.
I mean both Engels and Marx would disagree that crises in the current mode of production aren't the tinder that sets alight the fires of a revolution. You cannot hit a critical mass of people wanting to upend things if most people are, while exploited, broadly comfortable and willing to take their lumps thinking that things will probably continue to improve if they don't rock the boat. Crises create flash points where people can't see a moderate and easy way out, where the only safe bet is actually to overthrow the current rulers because they've used up whatever good will they had gained from their subjects. Consciousness building is simply the work that is done to ensure that, of that critical mass of revolutionary subjects, there is a sizable portion who can steer the masses, who understand why things are happening and can thoroughly explain it to the masses. Many of the rest of the masses may never actually become ardent communists, or have any great level of communist consciousness besides what the communists are currently telling them to get out of their shit situation they are currently in.
Being autistic and wanting to narrowly help other autistic people doesn't make you a "good person" more generally. Your class position is more likely to colour your actions, and by being a billionaire he is taking active efforts to protect his hoard like a dragon.
The person they've followed and interviewed correctly identifies that neither the greens nor reform will do anything to actually improve her life and the life of others in poverty, interestingly enough.
The US has done this exact shit off its own steam before, no need to fall back on the Israelis as defense. They utterly destroyed the North of Korea during their genocidal anti-communist war, for example.
It was mainly a problem because so many good names are already being sat on registered with the electoral commission. The names that were to be voted on were the only ones left that were actually available.
Israel is overwhelmingly made up of genocidal cretin, and Palestine's leaders are advocating for a variety of solutions including but not limited to armed resistance.
Not the first time and won't be the last. We have such a hot and cold relationship with China because the US whisper in the government's ears constantly when it comes to infrastructure projects in particular.
I reckon it's to do with US military bases and military technology in the areas - they rejected China helping us build 5G infrastructure too even though our own intelligence said it would be fine and not a risk.
Trotskyists have no concept of what the imperialist bourgeoisie is and will tar and feather any country as imperialist, including the imperialised.
In their actions and their rhetoric they implicitly support the western imperialists, gumming up and arguing against any alternative not as critical support but in active and constant vitriol and opposition.
The article is complete garbage, picked apart well by the other reply you had.
Not least because it spouted off the Uyghur genocide bullshit to smear China.
"Like it's the bible." You are a fucking idiot. Trotskyists call shit imperialist then when you point out that they are wrong and don't even understand the book that they pulled the term from you get accused of quote mining. Get a grip.
Trotskyists failing to understand Lenin's Imperialism for the 1000th time.
Imperialism is the stage of Capitalism where a militaristic foreign policy is developed and employed as a continuation of economic policy.
China is not doing imperialism because it trades with other nations and helps them build infrastructure and factories in win-win negotiations. When was the last time China got a trade deal or negotiated settlement because it pointed a load of guns and missiles at its potential trade partner?
Just childish and pathetic both sides-ism of the social fascists.
Those citations from that page come back to a book written by Jasper Becker, a right-wing journalist expelled from Hong Kong in the 90s and who became a Tory Councillor in the 2010s.
His book plays fast and loose with statistics, and the margins of error are huge - somewhere between 15 and 55 million people died in the famine but this citation seemingly suggests 65 million died, above that even cited in the books Wikipedia article. Reading the citations in the book's article leads you to a number of American (and American Chinese) authored articles that all pluck various numbers from this vast range.
Even a cursory amount of research and poking around links those various citations led to makes the presented state of affairs that seemed so ironclad and clear cut almost melt into meaningless. What else can be expected from anti-communist hit pieces so readily shared by idiots hoping to spread atrocity propaganda.
And when the EU kills thousands and thousands of people in the Mediterranean for trying to enter, that's just the cost of doing business I suppose. Dinghys full of people that EU coast guards could rescue but don't, for fear of the influx of refugees and immigrants into the EU. Left to die, drowning in the sea.
But China is evil because it controls the internal movement of its 1.4 billion population?
Tell me again the population of the EU. Of the population of the USA.
China is a developing country, it has lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty by its policy decisions. It put an end to the famines that you attribute to malice as opposed to the costs of decades of civil war and invasion by fascist forces.
When you've got a gun to your head fawning behaviour is an expected behaviour. Trump loves these completely free and easy signs of deference, and I bet it helps negotiations with these assholes.