Blackshirts and Reds is essential reading in this day and age. So many people side with nazis without even realizing it.

I agree with the sentiment, though not directed at my post since I'm not disparaging China for their success. I'm merely trying to add nauance. You started the comparison, you made a point of beating down on what Biden (the closest analog to Xi Jin Ping) posted.

Like literally every nation and person on this blue planet China does some good and some bad. I tend to think what they do badly is more important, human rights and political freedom ranks very high to me, and I know that is because I'm steeped in western culture and morals. And I'm absolutely not saying the US are poster boys for those issues, if you check my post history I shit heavily on the US for their violations like supporting Israel virtually unconditionally or their butchering of the MENA region throughout the last 2 decades.

China has, coincidentally after they moved a few pinholes away from "hardcore" communism, raised hundreds of millions of people (if not a billion by now) out of poverty, directly in their own country and indirectly in neighbouring nations. That is commendable. They also serve as a balance to US hegemony which I value, we can't have one nation that effectively could conquer all others, democracy or not it only takes one Hitler to raise to power in such a nation for the world to crumble, and we can't allow that.

So don't try to deflect my criticism by misconstruing my comment as unnuanced china bashing.