Saturday, December 16, 2023

Interesting ideological analysis of Cixin Liu’s popular Three Body series, especially this bit on how Chinese and American reactionaries use one another

madeinchinajournal.com/2023/12/1…

Screencap of the article with the following bit highlighted, “One similarity between Chinese and American right-wing nationalists, apart from the tropes mentioned earlier, is how the image of external threat is employed to delegitimate social justice struggles.&10;Whereas in China feminists and rights activists are attacked as victims of the influence of 'Western' values, US&10;conservatives connect their 'enemies' such as critical race theory, so-called gender ideology, or more recently, 'wokeism' to communism and the 'Cultural Revolution',&10;conveniently invoking the enduring image of the China threat.”