Sicilian Imperial-Capitalist Empire wrote:Nekostan-e Gharbi wrote:
Sinostatism (n.) the statist (as in, the state having substantial centralized control over social and economic affairs which is the standard definition) tradition of Chinese origins from the Qin to communist China.
Nekostan... something tells me you don't really understand authoritarianism.Picairn wrote:Apparently the term "Sinostatism" does not exist anywhere, outside of NS and... 4chan boards (wow). In the absence of a definition, I can conclude that it is made up nonsense, not created or validated by any political scientist or institution.
Don't expect Nekostan to respond to this. I tried to throw this fishing hook out but I caught nothing.Nekostan-e Gharbi wrote:
Sinostatism (n.) the statist (as in, the state having substantial centralized control over social and economic affairs which is the standard definition) tradition of Chinese origins from the Qin to communist China.
Sinostatism obviously exists since extreme centralized state control over social and economic affairs is traditional and characteristic of the Chinese civilization. Symptoms of Sinostatism includes the Chinese state controlling what’s generally run by businesses or social groups in other civilizations and the widespread belief in the necessity of such statist control in China.
For example the One Child Policy is a manifestation of Sinostatism. Most societies do not have a tradition of a government micromanaging the amount of children each and every member have in the form of a hard limit (and mandatory abortions & sterilizations). The fact that China could arbitrarily set the number to be 1 (or 2 in some provinces) is manifestation of a unique Chinese form of statism.
Another example is the provinces of China which correspond to geographical features a lot more than culture. Usually states and provinces in a non-colony are generally organic and correspond to local autonomous entities, tribes or cultures. Only colonial and Chinese subdivisions tend to ignore such concerns. Since China could maintain such unnatural subdivisions even without foreign rule this phenomenon is a manifestation of a unique intense Chinese form of statism, that is, Sinostatism.
By that logic I could claim that America needs to be abolished because it has a tradition of deeply rooted racism and oppression.Nekostan-e Gharbi wrote:
Yes. Please look up “Chinese statism”. I abbreviated the phrase into a word but the phenomenon which is distinct from communism definitely exists. Traditional Sinostatism is socially conservative and its modern version does have Prussian influence. China, France, Germany and Russia are indeed the four main sources of statist woes and government horrors on Planet Earth. Mixing statist ideologies from one or more of the sources creates statist cocktail which is often even worse than its ingredients.
All I could find was a guy talking about Xi Jinping's authoritarianism, not China's """""inherent""""" authoritarianism.
Everything else besides that one source was just "define statism."Nekostan-e Gharbi wrote:
Communism without China sucks but it still sucks less than China without communism, let alone China with communism. I’d prefer Trotsky to Chiang, Manchu emperors or Beiyang warlords at any time simply because the former was a Jewish intellectual despite his weird ideology (communism) as opposed to a Confucian patriarch. If I were in Vienna 100+ years ago I would have loved to visit a coffee house and listen to Mr. Bronstein at least once even though I would not have ended up agreeing with him just like I like to learn from modern Jewish intellectuals of numerous political and social schools from the socially left-wing Eliezer Yudkowsky and Yuval Harari to the socially right-wing David Goldman and everyone in between such as Ayn Rand, Jonathan Haidt, Joel Kotkin and Emmanuel Todd.
Communism just like Nazism is a crazy and harmful political ideology that does not tend to be very sustainable. China on the other hand is actually sustainable and is hence even more murderous in the long run. Hence the latter is even worse. I disagree with Karl Marx. Yet despite his weird ideology he still had more coherent ideas than everyone in Chinese history combined. Same for weird self-hating Jews such as Israel Shahak and Ron Unz.
Ok yep we have some real racism here...Nekostan-e Gharbi wrote:
What explained the relative small amount of Chinese in the rest of the world before Opium Wars then? If China were not isolationist Chinese merchants and adventurers would have been at least all over Iran. Arab, Iranian and Indian merchants definitely had significant influence far from their borders.
...you clearly haven't read any Chinese history if you're saying stuff like this. I could easily disprove this by talking about Chinese in East Africa and Southeast Asia.
A few people traveling with Zheng He and his statist mission is not the same as Chinese merchants freely visiting East Africa. Chinese people definitely existed in SEA though.
China simply does not have any tradition of coherent, logical thought with the sole exception of stuff such as “when a white horse is not a horse” in pre-Chinese history that sadly died out after the establishment of China.