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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 weeks ago

Love how hard they're trying to portray this as a bad thing lmao

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The US is run by the capitalist class, and from their point of view China is “authoritarian,” because the Chinese state isn’t allowing the capitalist class to run China.

That’s what Western governments and Western corporate media really mean by “authoritarian” & “totalitarian” governments: that Western capitalist neocolonization is being stymied by those governments.

[–] PunnyName 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If the government is in control of anything, capitalists will claim authoritarianism. This is the way.

[–] Korkki 3 points 2 weeks ago

If the government is in control of anything, capitalists will claim authoritarianism.

It's more like international capital wants unfetter access to resources and labour power in China. A country doing economic or resource nationalism is the problem, not the government doing stuff. All western governments are heavily interventionists in their economies, but they do it mainly for the capitalists and especially the international capitalists, what they do for the people is for keeping social stability so that they may keep their position.

[–] Korkki 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not very freedomy or very cash money democracy of them 😠

[–] Yawweee877h444 9 points 2 weeks ago

cash money democracy

Fucking LOL

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

I can only read the headline but that sound to me like a very good thing though.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] mudmaniac 8 points 2 weeks ago

Rich people. The cost is rich people.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's the Financial Times. Taxes are a cancer for them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

When it's directed at capitalists and corporations at least