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>>18660032
Communism is the only ideology that has successfully opposed the liberal-internationalist order. Fascism was reacting to the same problems communism was and in many ways was similar, but its naive warmongering lead to its demise, amongst other things. Consider that the country turning out the most Schmitt scholarship today (while almost everywhere else he’s denounced as a nazi) is China. Two of the right’s favorite theorists, Schmitt and Strauss, are huge in Chinese political philosophy. If Schmitt were around today he’d recognize the great efficiency by which China governs.

This doesn’t mean you need to become a China dick rider, all I do is observe the quality of China’s statecraft and understand why it works, then compare it to the increasing failures of my country, the US.

What’s funny is rightists often say the say the same thing as leftists regarding China, that it’s “not real communism.” If you ignore all the anti-communist agitprop (which never seeks to educate, rather only to leverage the power of the masses towards pragmatic ends) and observe how the government behaves, I think it’s clear Xi has the same goals that were stated by Mao and Stalin.