[imbokodo]

The Marxist/Maoist idea of the Chinese would be that the government is just part of the superstructure on top of the base. The base being the current state of the forces of production in their continual self-evolution and reinvention, and the relations of production flowing from that.

In other words, the economic system determines the political system. When hunter-gatherers became farmers, the political system changed. When farming as the center made way for manufacturing and industry, the political system changed (as did culture).

I don't see this as much different than Americans driving Lakota onto the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. Just two years ago the US federal government arrested and injured many on that reservation. Or Americans driving Vietnamese onto strategic hamlets. Or locking Japanese up in the 1940s. I don't see what innovation the Chinese have made.

[amaccuish]

You're being downvoted because what you've said is an inconvenient truth for a lot of Americans it seems.

[s2g]

also because it's whataboutism containing references to things widely regarded as stains on American history.

[StellarTabi]

You're never allowed to mention anything bad that's ever happened in the West, that's whataboutism. Randomly bringing up extremist scenarios like Mao's genocide of landlords or Stalin's gulags to prematurely shut down moderate pro-left discussions like "let's make healthcare a little more socialized in the US"? That's not whataboutism™.