*Guy who just ingested every word ever written* People shouldn't use their own words. They should pay to use my words.

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Meanwhile, the "great leaders" from the anglophone world killed tens of millions of people in other countries to de-industrialize them, to drop bombs on weddings and funerals, to disrupt workers movements, to pillage natural resources, and force children into fields and mines instead of classrooms.

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This was a society of serfdom that the CCP liberated millions of people from. China is not some kind of utopian society but they industrialized their country, educated hundreds of millions of people, and are the only country acting with any urgency about climate change today.

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Before Mao took control in China, life expectancy was ~30 years. People lived in grinding poverty that killed them most of the time before they were my age. In Fanshen, William Hinton describes a landlord who keeps his crop records in a book bound in human skin.

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Please pick up just one book on Chinese history if you actually think they had any sort of wealth in the first half of the 20th century

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