Comments by "Louis Giokas" (@louisgiokas2206) on "China’s Poverty Alleviation Has Always Been a Joke, an Online Influencer Reveals the CCP’s Deceit" video.

  1. I truly feel for the average Chinese person. I have often held that in northeast Asia the Chinese people were the closest in temperament to the US, and a natural ally. That is, of course, before 1949. On the other hand, the horrible things done by the peasants to other Chinese people, both during the revolution and during episodes like the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, have shaken my attitude. The fact that the two biggest Marxist revolutions took place in countries with a large rural peasant population would have surprised Marx. His assumption was that the revolution would start in industrialized societies with a large proletariat. He was thinking of Germany, the US and UK. There were attempts in these places, but they did not go that far. There are lots of reasons he was wrong, but the main reason was his understanding of people. Considering his personality, this is to be expected. Life in an industrial society, in cities, is far better than life in the country, especially in the period we are talking about. Actually, it is basically true today as well. So, while the proletariat was not living the high life, it was waaay better than being a peasant farmer, or even a small holder. So, what was done in Russia and China was to appeal to the peasant masses' basest instincts. They would band together and take from the "rich". It was really nothing other than organized theft in which everyone participated. Of course, all this was done under the direction of the Party. Given all this it is no wonder that in both the Soviet Union (and now the Russian Federation) and Communist China that corruption is rampant, and that morality is dead. It is a sad end to a long lived civilization.
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