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by curio_Pol_curio
60 days ago
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FWIW I think both CPC and US "system" are _both_ fundamentally doomed versions of liberalism. (Are we forgetting that Marx was a liberal?) As is Taiwan's DPP. They are losing the youth vote to the more consistent but pragmatic 3rd party, which will likely lead to the loss of the Presidency to the pro-unification KMT. CPC are not so much banning the Qur'an as making it subservient to Confucianism (which is a liberalish ideology that human nature is basically wholesome and does not need to be benchmarked against a higher standard) More "nuanced" criticism here (facts here may be triggering) https://bitterwinter.org/china-promotes-a-confucianized-appr... How about instead of getting angry with the heuristics of _fellow liberals_, thus shilling for the deaths of essentially apolitical billions, we get angry with our liberal selves for not being able to see how to fix the fundamental issues with liberalism-- itself not immune to cultlike thought patterns Start by studying the work of Karp, ex-student of Habermas, you may learn something about yourself :) |
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Confucianism nowadays doesn't really play a part in the CCP politics, it may be pushed at the individual level as a way to promote social "harmony", but certainly not as a general policy. For instance, the party recently judged that increasing the ultralow pensions (30$/m) of agricultural workers was not necessary.
In general, modern china is mercantilist economically, but not really liberal: the State heavily intervenes, property rights aren't guaranteed and the legal system isn't predictable at all (no jurisprudence). Socially, it's even less the case, with omniscient surveillance and repression of the information flow and expression.
Chinese workers still need internal temporary residence permits to work in cities like Beijing, and have no access to public services if they don't. The framing of "CCP policies as liberalism" is plainly wrong, and you ought to do some wikipedia reading about liberalism first.
By the way, Taiwan doesn't have a one-party rule, so its political system is not tied to the DPP. KMT also won elections and it didn't become a dictatorship either.