American media is genuinely so busted lol like how can you write this article and expect to be taken seriously. Here are some more examples of their “journalism”
American media is genuinely so busted lol like how can you write this article and expect to be taken seriously. Here are some more examples of their “journalism”
Also given the fact that Rural China pre CPC was an unrelenting hellhole that Appalachia could not imagine, where a “rich” family was one that ate Wheat and not Millet, and had meat 3 times a year.
Thrice a year was actually above average for certain parts.
My grandfather recounted having to eat boiled grass to survive winters during the occupation after my great grandfather died (in a Japanese occupied coal mine). His family would eat offal once a year during spring festival as their only indulgence.
You rarely see men that excited to be presented with liver and stomach lining, a Pavlovian response to the dishes from when he was a child. His memory of 疙瘩湯 was just boiled bits of dough seasoned with salt.
These people have no idea what type of material conditions we came from and the suffering we endured on our way to building socialism.
You watch interviews with people who participated in the Long March and it’s not people filled with regret that they didn’t become millionaires. It’s people who are grateful that their efforts, sacrifices, dealing with starvation, exhaustion, disease and death every day to preserve the nascent Communist Party as resulted in a better life for the people
Yeah. Horrific, almost impossible to visualise.
I’m reminded of the lines from the Chartist’s Anthem
Ye men of bone, of shrunken shank, your only treasure dearth
Women who carry at their breasts, heirs to the hungry earth
Speak with one voice, we march, we fall, and march again upon the years
Those weren’t hyperbole, that’s what actually happened to the poor in the 19th century, in the rich Imperial core.
And only the partial, halting achievements Socialists have made there stopped that (with the help of our more successful comrades in AES.)