It’s like China is just that one country (aside from the Khmer Rouge) that every ML (aside from Dengists like us) agrees to hate on.
Fellow Traveler and leftypol uploaded videos criticizing them, the Shining Path hung up literal dogs to protest them, Maoists go all insane saying that it’s some red fash social-imperialist nation because (insert nato propaganda here). And Hoxhaists claim that China was never socialist and that the only socialist nation ever was USSR before Khrushchev and almighty holy Albania.
What is it that makes China so controversial even among MLs? I get that it’s not perfect and every AES state has their Ls, but jesus.
I think they allow themselves to believe western lies about China and the negative framing that tends to be put on articles of that sort. I know I had to filter through a lot of propaganda to understand what is actually happening there, and to realize that I’d probably enjoy a visit. I personally noticed that there’s a lot of sinophobia that tends to cluster around those beliefs, so I imagine a select few are driving these discussions with the express purpose of furthering racism.