• ChicagoTransplant
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    1 year ago

    Yeah I mean specifically that Mao killed millions of people through a combination of ineptitude and taking the lessons from the wars he fought in into government. The Federation is built on principles that run counter to Maoism in important respects like allowing differences of opinion and anti-authoritarianism.

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      1 year ago

      The Federation is built on principles that run counter to Maoism in important respects like allowing differences of opinion and anti-authoritarianism.

      Do you know what the “mass line” concept by Mao is?

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      1 year ago

      like allowing differences of opinion and anti-authoritarianism

      Getting steamrolled by nazis after inviting them to the table under pompous pretenses of “allowing differences of opinion” isn’t even a viable starter for a government. The Weimar Republic comes to mind.

      The in-setting excuse for why the Federation survived at all, shaky as it was, is that it employs cryptofascists already and gives them unchecked privileges to surveil, harm, and murder on a whim to maintain the status quo: Section 31. You might be a fan.