
StrangeDeCupcheck
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StrangeDeCupcheck
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Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear (with apologies to Poe and Marvin Gaye).












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five-second epistemology Communism does not like landlords. Islam does not like interest. The monks still do not get it. I. Der Begriff · The Term Two more monks confused. Ho-fung Hung, sociologist at Johns Hopkins. Andrew Fischer, development economist at Erasmus. The two monks agree: the ultimate objective of US-China policy since Obama has been “to increase the freedom of US business operations inside China.” The framing has the analytical problem at the level of the noun. The noun is freedom. The noun is the wrong noun. Lenin asked the question a hundred years ago. Freedom for whom? Freedom for which class? The question is the foundational move of Marxism-Leninism. The question is the first sentence of every Chinese Communist Party position paper translated into English. The two monks have skipped the question. The two monks have offered the answer the question is designed to interrogate. Freedom for American businesses. The monks said it openly. The Chinese state read the same sentence and heard the answer to Lenin’s question. The Chinese state heard: the empire wants to import its landlord class into Chinese territory. II. Das Wesen · The Essence The simple thing. Communism does not like landlords. That is the religion. The whole religion. The single sentence that, once understood, dissolves the seminary’s confusion about every Chinese policy decision for the last seventy-five years. The CCP redistributed land in 1950. The CCP cracked down on platform monopolies in 2020 because the platforms had begun extracting rents from the productive base. The CCP cracked down on tutoring companies in 2021 because the tutoring industry had become rent extraction from parents. The CCP cracked down on Evergrande in 2021 because Evergrande had inflated land values to the point of becoming a generational rentier class. The pattern is the religion. The religion is the pattern. The seminary studies the pattern for decades and never names the religion.


































