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I’ve seen other videos on this channel. Lei always brings insight to the topics she covers. In one video, she argues that China’s population is considerably less than is claimed officially.
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Its important to note China does not have Jury trials. I note feminists here want to abolish Juries for rape and other sexual offenses, and then no doubt Domestic Abuse. Also that the CCP once in power abolishing the traditional family (as all Communist regimes do and Socialist regimes) by abolition of all traditions and making the “personal political”. And how doing so wreaks havoc with traditional societies. We’ve seen this in detail from India at ICMIs. Having re read the Soviet statutes of 1926 it is remarkable how the “progress” of our laws over the past 40 years mirrors these. The only real difference being that there was no “pill” so legalising abortion was seen as the primary contraception. Of course an ideology of economic determinism ignores human sentiment and “nuance” and makes everything a transaction.
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Philosopher Bertrand Russell accompanied a Labour Party delegation to the newly-formed Soviet Union, in the twenties. He wrote an account of what he learned in “The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism.” The points you make agree with Russell’s observations. Communism, and its watered down version Socialism, are deeply sinister.
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Rob, agreed. In comparison with communism and socialism – historians estimate 100+ million deaths and untold suffering resulting from them – fascism was a walk in the park. Karl Marx gets my vote for the most evil man who ever lived, for the consequences of his insane communist manifesto. One day I hope to p**s on his tomb in Highgate Cemetry, London, and have it recorded for posterity.
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Rob, my beloved late father was an agnostic. In my teens he introduced me to Bertrand Russell’s work including “Why I am not a Christian” https://tinyurl.com/3wh7krma which largely explains why I soon became an atheist and remain one, 50+ years later.
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Thank you. I will seek this out. It is really frustrating that the Marxist roots of modern feminism are sort of hidden. I get that very many feminists are unaware themselves of these roots, their actions usually driven by a sort of envious self interested chauvinism. However the Political Agenda is precisely that set out by Engels and which forms the core of every Socialist/Communist political Party. Most surprising is that so many “on the right” seem oblivious to this and have often been those who have actually enacted precisely this set of policies! For all her faults Kemi Badenoch is one of the very few conservative politicians who has made this explicit. The majority seem to presume that all these policies are just “being nice to women” rather than a set of political actions to remove the bonds of kinship and tradition which they see as a massive block to achieving Socialism and eventually Communism. I can only assume they simply haven’t read their political opponents works, because it’s quite explicit and clearly set out! As “conspiracies” go it not at all secret!
One of the clever things about feminism in academia is that it never researches the Socialist/Communist world, even though these Marxist regimes are in fact the most feminist in the world in their legal codes and their determination to make men and women equally “units” in a society without any constraining bonds of tradition or biology. I presume because in fact achieving this wonderful equality of outcomes turns out to require the secret police to have a file on every single person! To make women “free” requires oppression on an epic scale.
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Of course Fascism in its Italian and German incarnations was simply “national” socialism. Both applying Marxist theory but in a nationalist context. In theory the Soviet Union incarnation was international, creating a world revolution that would role over all nations. In a very real way both Mussolini and Hitler were more “gradualists” seeing that they had to work with the “establishments” in both countries. Both hated the Aristocrats and Industrialists and Bourgeoise but thought they needed them until one day getting rid of them once the Fascist and National Socialist revolutions (respectively) were completed. The “internationalist” Soviets had of course simply killed them off in their 100,000s (millions over time).
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