Young people in China are becoming more rebellious, questioning their nation’s traditional expectations of career and family

  • Grogon@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    It’s interesting because people are people and it doesn’t matter where you are born.

    If you look at it from a birds eye view you will see a younger, smart generation trying to fight it’s own governments.

    It’s not USA vs China vs Russia vs Europe etc. it is the younger generation vs the old generation. Currently each generation is fighting it’s own government and slowly realising how poor they have done in the last decades.

    Nobody wants war.

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      10 months ago

      Boomers want a war.

      I actually think that the biggest damage the parents of the Boomers committed was glorifying their war stories. Don’t get me wrong, I probably would have too so I’m not saying this out of judgement. But I think the Boomers grew up feeling like the only way to prove themselves was to fight as hard as their parents did. And when there weren’t any Nazis to be found, they found fights with anybody they could.

      … including their own children.

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      t’s not USA vs China vs Russia vs Europe etc. it is the younger generation vs the old generation

      No, it’s owning class vs working class, anything else is a distraction in service of the owning class.

      Workers of the world, unite! ✊

      (edited in image. If you need image description - source)

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        10 months ago

        Even marxists don’t simplify the classes as much as that diagram suggests. It’s missing peasants, artisans and the petty bourgeois. It’s also never been as simple as capitalist vs working class. Capitalists regularly fight amongst themselves as do the working class. This whole idea of class struggle being the only struggle is so oversimplified it’s kinda silly.

        I don’t think it’s honest to frame it in generational language either btw. Though that is a component of it.

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          10 months ago

          This whole idea of class struggle being the only struggle is so oversimplified it’s kinda silly.

          There’s nothing wrong with a simplified model if it gets you the results you’re looking for. And for the vast majority of the working class thinking in simplistic terms such as capitalist vs. worker would improve their lives tremendously.

          The more complex models might be useful for explaining how things change and evolve. But mainly complexity is introduced by capitalists (or capitalist simps) to sow discord among workers and keep us from organizing effectively.

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            10 months ago

            Why are all the marxists coming out of the wood work? Y’all can’t run a society for shit. Why are you still here and existing?

            China was one of your experiments that went wrong. Go and build a working model for a socialist or communist society and I might listen. Until then you have nothing to add. Anarchists had better luck than you guys and you killed them for it.

            • go_go_gadget@lemmy.world
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              10 months ago

              I mean, call me whatever you want. It’s irrelevant. Do you need my vote or not? If you don’t then ignore me. If you do then pay attention.