agree in general though that the failure to think through the Chinese communist experience, from the Civil War, resistance to Japan, Korea all the way through One-child and Tiennamen, is a huge fucking blindspot in almost all western left accounts of the 20th century and desperately needs repairing

(also, thank you for providing a really good historical essay for me to sink my teeth into and stop thinking about the nightmare unfolding down there for an hour <3)