Goodreads Doesn't Have It, Data Migration: The Slaughter, Mass Killings in China
In current times, we see people like Bill Gates or others say they're "not political" while fighting parts of the CCP that enforce a politicization on everything. As we saw in Covid-19, things that are usually not political, like medicine and bodies, were made deeply political. And as we saw in Bill Gates' book on the matter calling the White House and getting angry at them when they didn't want a centralized tech website, politicization happens in these spheres that subvert the electoral process despite what they might otherwise claim. Falun Gong did not want to be political, I believe that. But it became that way. And you can't go on a hunger strike in a prison and still claim to not be political. Sometimes the whole thing is just cowardice, and some of the Falun Gong members admit as much. But it's fair to say that if you can't just practice qigong without a gruesome fate the avoidance of politics has reached such a fever pitch that it will be extremely hard to push back the CCP's materialist, "greed is good as long as it's greed for China's prosperity" certainty. Falun Gong is a clear case of what happens when all the "talking down" that is done to prevent valid self-defense actually is implemented. And the result is ten times more horrifying, and doesn't even succeed in preventing violence, but rather encourages it as people capable of such cruelty operate on a "might is right" basis and have no respect for weakness.
In the wake of Vladimir Putin likely targetting and killing another Russian dissident Prigozhin (to the point he was willing to kill everyone aboard the plane for the sake of 'plausible deniability'; absolute vanity and cowardice...he is very unpopular with the world for good reason) it's important to also study a huge ally to his reign in terms of the CCP. This is what they are both capable of. It's important to remember that Russians are also well know for being ethnicist, which is racism but even more arbitrary and petulantly otherizing, to the point they say all people in one area are such and such way by being in that area. They did it to the Chechens and Ukraine is also deeply about ethnicism, which again is just racism, but even more capricious. So, when Putin's Russia claims to talk about Nazis, remember they mean German support of Ukraine to kick out his influence in the region because Ukrainians genuinely and organically do not want a corrupt mobster who they state "r*ped their country" when he installed a puppet presidency for the sake of access to oil and access to Europe. *If you don't have the critical thinking to understand being German is not inherently being a Nazi, that some of the toughest antifascists with the most sophisticated technology originate in Berlin, you don't have the critical thinking to run a huge swath of land. That's the meaningless arbitrariness of ethnicism, again, which is even worse in terms of comprehension of causality than racism and runs rampant in Russia. Even Americans don't get that one wrong that much anymore. And ironically ethnicism is the root of eugenics, the most Nazi behavior around. *
This book is the same thing as that. It shows how Falun Gong tried to play it as the "good kid protesting" in China. They tried to remain "respectable" and "civil" and "Chinese". And what happened to them? They ended up stripped of their skin, plasticized, and in one case, for all eternity made a plastic, corpse version of a human being penetrated sexually by another corpse for anyone to ogle...included ten year olds. So when someone tells you to "keep it civil" around anything that constitutes a) numerical assignment of identity as opposed to social assignment b) signs of death capitalism such as killing someone just to own all their property or to sell their organs c) mass disposal d) mass processing and e) most importantly, unnecessary and grotesque sadism and nearly masturbatory self-congratulation about said sadism, just know they are the Falun Gongs of the world...the ones trying to keep their reputation peacefully only to be the most humiliated, the most stripped, the most dehumanized. This is not how you effectively deal with hyperfascism, and it's not a matter of "character" or something like that. It's a matter of science and actually studying this as a large scale symptom of desperate capitalism.
As we all know, communism is a way out of poverty. For many years, the rural and agricultural areas of China were severely neglected. Communism came and for awhile helped that until it became top down and centralized and the shared, more anarchic communes now were managed by people who just yesterday were just screaming how unfair things were and actually didn't have a positive, studied vision on what they were doing. It then fell apart again, and took up to 2,000 of cultural wealth with it. That's a scar that never heals. Falun Gong made that scar throb again as it was a deeply Chinese qigong practice that became popular all over the world. The pain of the cultural revolution clearly was exacerbated and when it is that deep in the cultural nervous system, the behaviors repeated again. Dehumanization, targeting. Even the administrators of the CCP when they were at the court of appeals said they had never seen a protest like that since Tiananmen. The book cites that they were deeply jealous, enraged, by the popularity Li had. They didn't need to play the game of the "karaoke bar" politics to get up to the top like those in the communist leadership did; they won on merit, on attractiveness, and had deep, genuine loyalty.
The loyalty the CCP had was not deep, genuine, enthusiastic loyalty. It was loyalty forced into the nervous system. The overall message was that "your body is not your own and you have to obey power and money". The even deeper messages was "being meek with hyperfascism is not going to make it better. It will make it worse. They have no respect for that." They exterminated prisoners of conscience and sold their bodies for money merely because they were easy targets being peaceable and in good health. It is very similar to Putin sending healthy men to the front line for a fake war essentially based in narcissistic rage and to kill off young men who might threaten him, already making his weak country even weaker. Complete selfishness. All actions just worried about staying in power. No deeper vision.
This is a very scary book but well researched and truly excellent. This is everything you need to know about how "forced trade" enters the nervous system in a deep way, and the slogans that are creating a "wealthy China" which is in fear of anything that doesn't brainwash its residents into accumulation in order to combat the West which does what...asks for transparency? Says, even your own people can see that the Cultural Revolution was only successful briefly in the agricultural sphere when you truly empowered the people and you ruined it yourself when you centralized and made the collectives less autonomous? And that Falun Gong is right to give the power back to the body, and to keep it in conversation with the mind?
There is a lot to unpack here, especially where the final product was paraded around the world, especially to European countries and many Chinese resent the West for the original Open Door policy issue that led to years and years of addiction. What good has Marx done China if this is the final result? A materialism that vile? Perhaps deep down it is China rejecting it, saying, take a look at your faithless materialism and see how brutal and horrifying it really is. It did this to us.