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in this moment I am a bedraggled person crawling across an endless desert who is being shown the image of a big pitcher of cold water
This sounded great until i saw “yale” and “harvard”
Xi! Do the thing!
lol need a cultural revolution 2.0
Is SWCC not diametrically opposed to such a thing ever happening again?
I don’t see how it’s opposed to the idea behind cultural revolution which is to create a generation of intellectuals who develop socialist thinking to counter reactionary bourgeoisie intellectuals. In fact, I think this is something that needs to be cultivated on ongoing basis to prevent counterrevolutionary thought from taking root in the intellectual class. An idea like academic bars seems to be a good way to have dialog and promote socialist theory.
I agree that what you are discussing is in line with the idea behind the Cultural Revolution. That wasn’t my question.
I guess you have to be more specific regarding what about that you think is at odds with SWCC.
The whole point of Deng’s reforms was opposition to everything the Cultural Revolution was doing! Not just negating its changes but then moving in the opposite direction (as the CR was specifically instated to counter Dengists and their ilk). Saying China should do another CR is like saying it should do another country-wide land redistribution. It would be cool if someone had a magic wand but short of that, it’s opposed to state ideology.
Besides, I think the place to start would probably be in the universities themselves and not hangout spots, since the amount of people studying liberal economics in China (better known there, as here, as “economics”) is at minimum an order of magnitude larger than those studying Marxism, and that’s still SWCC Marxism in the main, i.e. the ideology that got us to this condition where a completed CR is necessary.
Incidentally, I’m reading a book about this right at this very moment. Deng reforms were never meant to liberalize China or make it capitalist. It was a measure that was meant to allow China to catch up to the west. This has been accomplished now, and we’re seeing a push from the party to wind down the role of private sector in the economy.
Again, what I described above isn’t some drastic reeducation campaign, but rather firming up of the socialist ideological line within the intellectual sphere. Meanwhile, the notion that people aren’t studying Marxism in China is frankly absurd. In fact, there’s plenty of evidence that the opposite is the case.
Xiaohongshu user Brother Pig, King of Fishing
Women love me, Fish fear me
The translation was wrong lol.
摸鱼 (lit. touching fish) is a slang for “slacking off at work”, it means more like King of Slacking Off during work, not fishing.
Women love me, Work fears me
xhs is probably the most reactionary platform right after zhihu and certain weibo neighborhoods and among the academics i get to interact with, it’s like 50/25/25 split between libs/infantile disorder patients/based
They’re all libs lol. Fairly affluent user base I would say, you really have to look hard to find the based commentary.
and it’s literally named after the little red book, what the heck
that’s rather unfortunate
I’m jealous, that’s cool
Communist beatnik culture
Where do I sign up?
chapo.chat
sounds like a good idea for training students to make academic presentations with lower pressure
Xiaohongshu is so cool
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Are they actually academic or are they just promoting bourgeoise western shit?
Genuine question, I can’t tell whether this is academics becoming cooler or a bunch of trojan horses disguised as bars. Comment below compares it to TED talks but those cost $10,000 to attend and $500 to watch live virtually.
probably an op, xhs is a terrible platform and using it is self harm, it is completely ideologically compromised and anyone willing to cooperate with them is an antipolitical opportunist at best
probably gonna be a mix, but I think the concept itself is very good
I want to go to there
this is cool. they have places like this in some cities in the west but usually it’s more aimed at literature, especially poetry. poets know how to drink tho goddam.
On the other hand, I can see their potential for helping people get through with the Gaokao (hardest and most thorough exam, I’ve heard)
Urban ‘elites’, however, make me think this is prone to liberalism (if they rock the boat too much with others), especially if the owners are of Yale and Cornell University accreditions
Time to bring back 17th century bans on coffee houses to prevent sedition
China has invented TED Talks
