Memes

I tagged it so I don't have to remember it :)

Every society puts limit on freedom of speech and expression. There's nothing unique about China in this regard. What makes you think that the west got this balance fundamentally right while everyone else got it wrong aside from the anchoring bias you experience by virtue of growing up in a particular society? It's certainly clear that China's approach results in far more social stability than western approach.

Also, the fact that you think China centralizes power instead of giving it to the people shows that you don't actually understand how Chinese system works. I urge you to spend a bit of time educating yourself on a subject you're stating opinions on here. Here's a western article for you explaining that Chinese system actually encourages decentralized governance and grassroots organization. https://www.noemamag.com/what-the-west-misunderstands-about-power-in-china/

Similarly, the government is also organized based on using grassroots structures as its foundation https://news.cgtn.com/event/2021/who-runs-the-cpc/index.html

Meanwhile, corruption has little to do with centralization. Corruption comes from lack of means to hold people in authority to account. This problem exists within flat structures just as much as it does in centralized ones. In fact, it can be far more pronounced in cases where there are no formal methods for creating power structures https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm

Also, centralization is not at odds with workers owning means of production in any way. That's a really naive understanding of the problem. For example, you can have cooperative ownership of the industry where the workers are in control of how their workplaces operate, while having central governance structures that direct overall efforts to make sure they align with larger societal goals. These types of structures are necessary in large societies for the same reason complex organisms evolve things like nervous systems and brains. The brain doesn't micromanage the function of the body, but rather focuses on the high level goals beneficial to the organism as a whole.

I'm also well familiar with Wolff, and he has lots good ideas. If you actually pay attention to what he says then you'll see that he views Chinese system quite positively overall.

And they've been addressing that with positive results being seen this year

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202205/1265938.shtml

https://www.wionews.com/world/china-comes-up-with-20-recommendations-to-encourage-families-to-have-more-children-572313

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202501/1327070.shtml

You know there's a video that shows what happened after that frame. Didja know that son?

You have this one photo, onto which you project a lifetime of cold war propaganda.

It may surprise you to learn that tank man was standing in the way of tanks leaving the square and going back to base. After climbing on to the tank and talking with the crew, he eventually left the area of his own accord with some other civilians.

• The Tian’anmen Square ‘Massacre’: The West’s Most Persuasive, Most Pervasive Lie.
• Columbia Journalism Review: The Myth of Tiananmen
• 1989 Tian'anmen Square riots
• A Note on the Tiananmen Protests
• Images from Tiananmen 1989 the West never shows (NSFW / CW: violence and death)
• Tank Man video footage. Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 1989
• How psy-ops warriors fooled me about Tiananmen Square: a warning

Go look up the video to find out how this ends, then go look up how it ended for people standing in front of cop cars during George Floyd protests for comparison. That's not the funny part though, the hilarious bit is that the guy was protesting the tanks leaving because he was against the color revolution you chuds were trying to run in China. Try harder shitlib.