In the more naive days of International Communism, good old Lenin is alleged to have said that āThe Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.ā
While Communists ended up having difficulty scrounging up enough cash to afford the rope, it is true that there has never been a shortage of sellers (see ITAR; violations of).
It looks like the āCommunism with Chinese Characteristicsā chaps have done him one better.
Also, does it come to a surprise to anybody else that Readers Digest had/has any material worth censoring? I thought that theyād been catering to the āpeople who find Time and Newsweek to be too intimidating to keep in the houseā market for decadesā¦
That last sentence. The one about irony and maxims. I didnāt understand it at all.
If one lives long enough, one becomes oneās enemies. As well as that bit about seeing their bodies float past you on the river.
That last sentence. The one about irony and maxims. I didnāt understand it at all.
Iāll try to help.
If the irony is only as deep as Beijingās vestigial socialist pretensesā¦
China still calls itself communist, but that isnāt even close to true: itās more of a state-capitalist kleptocracy. The Chinese dictatorship cloaks itself in the old pro-communist rhetoric to legitimize itself, to disguise the greedy truth of how it really does business.
Thus, if accused of a contradiction between their anti-communist rhetoric and their actions, Readerās Digest could say that theyāre not actually supporting communism, theyāre just selling out free speech rights to other capitalists for money, which isnāt the same thing.
ā¦perhaps a new maxim is needed to embody the power of the printing
pressāone less about who buys ink by the barrel and more about who sells
it.
Whereas in the old maxim, ābuys ink by the barrelā was used literally to describe the printing process, āsells inkā is here used figuratively to mean āsells out its principles for cash.ā
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