#dengism

[yourfaveisleftist]

Spamton G. Spamton from Deltarune is a Dengist!

[jocrude]

> westerners are some of the most politically illiterate people

-Person who can't consume any political material that isn't on reddit, youtube, or twitch

> Noooo the belt and road initiative is helping those poor violent savages in africa become civilised prosperous nations its the chinese man's burden you don't understand they're doing it all out of charity they didn't force these nations to accept it yes i know what neocolonialism is you stupid westerner

[apas-95]

in general 90% of people who complain about 'dengism' can't even actually pronounce the name correctly and as such can be ignored out of hand

[elbiotipo]

Peronism with Chinese Characteristics could be just Literally Dengism or just Literally The Koumintang

I've solved the Chinese civil war but I doubt anyone is happy about it

[yuri-alexseygaybitch]

Really funny looking back on all of the 90s/oughts "scholarship"/"journalism" on the ultimate triumph of capitalism and the End of History post-USSR collapse and how in almost every case it just completely ignores the part where the biggest country on Earth still had a socialist government because Dengism wasn't *really* communism, and now 20 years later that little blind spot is coming back with a vengeance.

[max1461]

We should start making new ideologies by adjoining the ones we already have with logical connectives. Uh yeah I believe in dengism xor neoconservatism.

[loving-n0t-heyting]

As an alternative to the well-worn compass, the political K5 graph on ⬛️/🟥/🟨/🟦/🟪:

⬛️ 🟥: anarcho-communism

⬛️ 🟨: anarcho-capitalism

⬛️ 🟦: Amish-style traditionalist reclusion

⬛️ 🟪: Tolkienian anarcho-monarchism

🟥 🟨: Dengism

🟥 🟦: National Bolshevism

🟥 🟪: juche

🟨 🟦: GOP-style fusionism

🟨 🟪: Moldbugian libertarian-monarchist neoreaction

🟦 🟪: traditionalist royalism

[dreissigconversion]

Whenever someone specifically says "Dengite" any patience or willingness to at least sit there and pretend to listen while they finish dribbling down their chin evaporates.

Dengism is not a serious position held by any serious person with serious analyses worth serious consideration; reaction to it is even more unserious.

[notbeetle]

Incomplete list of official tumblr ideologies:

incest fanfic free speech absolutism

copyright maximalist progressivism

steven universe zionism

anarcho-homesteadism

libertarianism (lesswrong strain)

libertarianism (4chan strain)

yuri dengism

[potuzzz]

TLDR: A good, effective communist these days should be doing everything in their power, even dirty shit, even straight up being a capitalist, to Play, and to Win, The Game here in the imperial core.

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(No longer TLDR)

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I don't even want to open the can of worms that is Caleb Maupin, but a quote from him that I deeply resonate with, and that I think all im the Western Left should resonate with, is "out of the movement, and into the masses."

Here in the United States especially, the situation is so dire that we need to put on our War Hat and prepare to (potentially drastically) reduce our moral, ideological, and ethical standards for ourselves and our comrades.

The current methods have proven disastrously ineffective.

In war, if you can afford it, absolutely you should do the right thing. You should avoid civilian casualties and critical infrastructure, you should treat POWs kindly, you should loudly and patiently give enemies a chance to surrender, to tend to their wounded, to evacuate non combatants. Etc., etc.

However, we can not afford it. The current methods have failed us. We are behind. We are losing The Game, the dog eat dog game that this world is under a capitalist hegemony.

We do not have the power to dictate the rules of engagement. That isn't to say that small acts of kindness are not important, they are, but as a matter of policy, of doctrine? Mask off today. Scorched earth if need be.

We need money, we need power, we need numbers. By any means necessary. It is that simple.

If you're a comrade, go get you some money. Go get you some power. By any means necessary.

Another favorite quote:

"Revolution is no place for silk gloves."

Every successful revolution and socialist country has had periods of great struggle, where corners both material and moral had to be cut (certainly not to the extent of their enemies, nor the propaganda their enemies painted of them).

China had a period of ideological hardline, the Cultural Revolution. It was a disaster for them! To survive to play another day, and to play the long game, they then shifted towards opportunistic and shameless Dengism. And, by following the code of Socialism By Any Means Necessary, we arrive at where they are today under Xi: implementing incredible reforms that DO speak loudly to morals and ethics, that DO spend that little extra bit of cash or time or effort, just to do THE RIGHT THING...because they can afford it NOW, only AFTER the winnings of cold and calculating Dengism.

Again, we are not our enemies, and we never will be. Even in war, communist forces universally do not commit the amount of atrocities that capitalist or especially fascist forces do. We're softies. We care about people and mark-ass shit like that. But if, in those military conflicts, these softies across time and space didn't say, "Okay, I will kill a man to protect my home and people and thus socialism. I don't have to enjoy it, but I have to do it," they would have gone extinct.

We are at war. It has been here for a long time, it is just made to be obscure and indirect. It will get hotter as time goes on. It is a Cold War right now, but the consequences in the long term will be the same.

We are at war, and I think on a global scale, the war is over. Save for something truly heinous like Nuclear Armageddon, capitalism has lost. Socialism has won. It's just a matter of waiting for the rabid dog to die, minimizing the damage as it thrashes about, and for exorcising the poison out of all the bite marks it has left across the world.

However, on a much smaller scale, such as the United States, the future is not so clearly bright. I feel like our sins are great and they will come home to roost. I feel like this limb will be in many ways amputated from the rest of the world. Oh, they're gonna build a Wall all right. Just not facing the direction US Americans think it will.

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[yourfaveisleftist]

Asami Sato from The Legend of Korra is a Dengist!

[nukachemistry]

fallout new vegas golden ending where you reinvent dengism

[estradiolivia]

yea I don't like China, I don't like Dengism. But if your only source for "bad thing happening in China" is a fellow of the Victims of Communism foundation or whatever, im stealing something out of your house

[trunk--slamchest]

Local man booted from several communist councils because I keep recreating Dengism with the arts and crafts supplies.

[ergativeabsolutive]

did that video lecture on 19th century japan really need a dengism moment sir

[goflowolfog]