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    There’s another theory, which capitalists don’t wanna hear. It would disturb them.

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        Don’t wanna tell, because it would be a lot of work - let’s give a few hints: The protesters were singing The Internationale and Deng Xiaoping was a revionist and not a marxist.

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            It would include a lot of translations and giving links to videos, which are probably already deleted. So, it doesn’t make sense to elobarate. Nobody would believe anyways.

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              What an easy way to peddle bullshit. Just say something is true and then refuse to do any work to prove it.

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              We don’t wanna hear about it so badly that critics won’t even talk about it when asked. Damn.

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                Nobody will believe it and I got over 100 downvotes. So here you go: China was making liberal changes after Mao and moved away from marxism. The leadership changed and Deng Xiaoping moved ahead to shitty deals for the citizens. Deng openly admitted, that he believed in confucianism and wanted to make changes towards it. A lot of the citizens were unhappy with it and wanted more socialism - which includes more democracy - but also changes to better working-conditions. Because Deng and the new leaders didn’t want that, they moved forward with tanks and military.

                tl:dr: socialists were on the streets and were fought with tanks - the tankies were confucianists, who wanted more capitalism

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                  tl:dr: socialists were on the streets and were fought with tanks - the tankies were confucianists, who wanted more capitalism

                  Damn that was a lot of work indeed. Can’t believe you managed to do it.

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                    can’t believe everybody needs to write a stupid comment - there are enough

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                    The Communist Party of China decided they need to become an authoritarian State-Capitalist country survive in the modern world. The protestors still believed in Socialism, but wanted democratic reforms.

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                  There may be a grain of truth in that. I’m glad you explained yourself. I definitely appreciate that these things are nor black and white.

                  Would you say the protestors wanted more socialism’s but not more Mao-style communism?

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                    dno tbh - this whole thing is like a black box and everybody is talking shit - but denying it happened is the dumbest thing to do

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                    Basically the protestors were socialists who believed in democracy. The government abandoned socialist ideals and wanted an authoritarian state-capitalist country, but called it “socialism with chinese characteristics”.

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                  Yes, basically the protestors were socialists who believed in democracy. The government abandoned socialist ideals and wanted an authoritarian state-capitalist country, but called it “socialism with chinese characteristics”.

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                    Not democracy like we know it. This is important. They wanted more participation and not voting parties.

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      There’s a theory that you guys don’t want to hear because it would disturb you 😏

      Actually we do want to hear it

      … no.