Purges: A HOW TO GUIDE 革命不是请客吃饭
Mother! I found more Leopards! // Democratization in China? ANALYTICS
Word of the day: Leopard, der Leopard, le léopard, el leopardo, леопард 猎豹
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Democratistation in China?
China’s government regards China as a “new democracy” although no one has worked on that concept much since Mao Zedong coined it. China’s government seeks democratic feedback, but stable safe democratic expressions. The Chinese government, perhaps also the Chinese people, value collective social order, stability, and peace above individual freedom.
Democracy can be seen as :
Forming state policies ex ante, before the fact.
and/or
Legitimating state policies ex post, after the fact.
The people’s dictatorship in China claims to enjoy democratic legitimation ex post, the passive ratification by the broad masses of elite policies elaborated by the CCP for implementation by local governments and the Chinese people.
Taiwan does in fact pose an ideological existential threat to the ideas of popular dictatorship and the CCP myth that the new China is only possible because of the CCP. Yet, Taiwan’s existence (Honk Kong and Macau too!) validate the CCP view that without governance by the CCP China would fall back into yet another civil war with millions of dead and widespread famine, which did in fact characterize China historically.
https://www.economist.com/china/2023/02/02/why-vladimir-putin-is-not-a-pariah-in-china
Purges are bad, but blood purges are horrible. So let’s play a fun game!
SPOT THE HERO.
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True things are true no matter who says them. Like most elites, McFaul lacks literal street fighting experience, and so at times over-reacts. Yet: this time he is right, it’s not 2006.
Hit it.
Back to purges. I am speaking from experience: I have been purged and rehabilitated at least once, maybe more. What to do?
Purge early!
Purge often!
Purge them BEFORE they purge you!
Don’t blood purge. That’s a sucker play. You’ll inevitably get what you dished out, and you’ll likely kill some of the wrong people, alienating support, losing intelligence, and setting a really bad example which will justify YOUR turn on the chopping block!
Don’t believe me? Just ask Robbespierre…
But if you still don’t believe me let’s just recall Mao Zedong said:
“Heads are not like cabbages. They don’t grow back once you chop them off.” - Mao Zedong Yes, he really said that). He also said
"A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another." - Mao Zedong
And the class we are over-throwing, dear reader, is none other than the Russian oligarchs, the criminal regime governing Russia, Putin and his kleptocrati co-conspirators, who are nearly identical with the Russian grande bourgeoisie. They’re willing to kill to stay in power, which means you need to be good at not getting killed until we’re finally rid of that clique of parasitical murderers. Good news!
China isn’t going to help Putin,
but will help itself to cheap Russian oil and whatever else we let them take from the criminals in the Kremlin!
I’m a “rob from the murderering thieves ‘n give to the poor” kinda hood, huh.
Not sorry.
People facing purges should ask themselves
how to avoid being purged in the first place O.O
don’t get caught. in other words don’t blab. don’t brag. admit nothing. deny everything. be as invisible and appear as harmless as you can be.
blend in! conform!
“they can’t imprison all of us!” if you’re going to be wrong, be wrong in a group.
don’t be a martyr, martyrdom is for suckers and generally doesn’t work.
try to not be obviously opposing whomever is purging
figure out who is being purged and then make yourself look nothing like them!
Remember the Japanese proverb: “the nail that sticks out gets hammered down”
especially figure out how to avoid being blood purged! X_X Basically not being an overly-ambitious loudmouth lying greedy murderer should keep you off the “to kill” lists. Be smaer about mass protests infiltraitors and wreckers srae agents abound.
how to get rehabilitated if purged. ^_^ Make yourself useful. Really useful.
Nice Bridge you got there Vlad. Nice bridge indeed. It’d be a shame if something unfortunate were to happen to it again… ^_^
Rehabilitation may mean merely re-entry into polite society, or even being reinstated into a political party, or at least taken off of a “to kill list”. Just because one is party purged doesn’t mean one can’t be blood purged.
Let’s look at this in a perspective, which may help reduce feelings of fear and paranoia: how do investment managers spot fraudsters? How do they cull their lists? This is an earlier problem, but the same problem, as purging: namely, who to admit to a skool, a partie, a klub, a fraternal society, a mafia, however styled.
Here are two of the best capitalists who describe “vetting” investment “opportunities”.
“You are all assets“
Stalin, love him or hate him, had a similar attitude to Munger & Buffet: he did not need to kill only the guilty, but did need to kill all the guilty.
The blood purges of the 1930s in Russia explain why the contemporary CCP de facto rejects “red terror”. “Terror” as a tactic generally fails to transform class relations, to put it in Marxist terms. Terror is ineffective as a revolutionary tactic and even worse as a governing tactic.
Since “red terror” and “white terror” are both ineffective as revolutionary or governing tactics. So why discuss blood purges at all? Blood purges can and sometimes still do happen: lots of Russians have already been blood purged. Others have ‘merely’ had their careers destroyed. We ought not encourage blood purges, since they are uncontrollable and could well eliminate elements in the enemy camp friendly to our side. But if we understand how to party purge effectively we can avoid double-agents, spies, moles, and other varieties of traitors.
AN ALGORITHM FOR FILTERING OUT BAD/UNRELIABLE/INACCURATE OPEN SOURCE INTELLIGENCE PART ONE OF TWO
The first thing to understand is that there are many ways information can be no good. We can be looking at lies, half truths, good faith errors, and incomplete data. Purging an organization, like winnowing out information and then assigning it a credibility level is similar: both are about sorting information which is incomplete but comes from multiple sources and thus can be effectively correlated to determine which information is certainly true, certainly false, probably true, possibly true, and probably false.
You want to think of the categories like a filter, and all the data starts at the top of a funnel. At the first level we identify known lies, known people who are in practice enemies. Since they will lie we must judge people’s loyalty based on what they actually do, not what they say.
END OF PART I OF TWO
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