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  • You are doing the age old ML trick of attaching the rights which convey political agency to a specific historical epoch of economic liberalism. If we are to understand that the Chinese socialism is a process which inherently must navigate through flaws and imperfections of the material conditions it is dealt, then surely we much acknowledge the same of the western struggle. And yes, it is a struggle all the same, albeit from a position of historical privilege.

    In reality there is nothing about the enshrinement of individual rights which requires or implies capitalism or imperialism, other than historical snapshot these things have been attached to. It is no more correct than saying all socialism requires autocracy. In fact, we have an entire century of revisionist thinking which modifies Marx with this specific goal in mind. So just as China approaches this struggle from a more Orthodox perspective inspired by Lenin and molded by a period of historical oppression (itself a bit or a contradiction given China’s broader history), the west’s struggle is throwing off the shackles of its comparative success and influence which binds it to so much old world influence. Both molded by imperialism in different ways. Both currently stuck in a vicious cycle of capitalism, thrust on them by material reality.