Is Chinese President Xi Jinping right?>inb4 define objective reality>Of all things in the world, metaphysics requires the least amount of effort; as it is neither based on nor subjected to the test of objective reality, people can talk as much nonsense as they like. Upholding materialistic dialectics, in contrast, demands a high level of genuine effort. On the one hand, we should strengthen investigation and research to accurately understand objective reality and truly grasp objective laws. On the other hand, we should continue to observe things dynamically, not statically; holistically, not one-dimensionally; systematically, not fragmentally; and in context, not in isolation, with a view to properly handling various major relationships. All subjectivist, formalist, mechanistic, dogmatist, and empiricist views are metaphysical ways of thinking, and cannot produce positive results in practice.Source: https://www.ccdpch.com/dialectical-materialism-is-the-worldview-and-methodology-of-chinese-communists/
>>24740148That’s exactly what Descartes says in rules for the mind.
>>24740161Xi has probably read that.
>>24740211We need leaders like this in the west.Republican? Democrat? Let me vote for the Chinese Communist Party and let it be the last election.
>>24740211While the extent of his reading is unknown, it is likely that Xi Jinping has read works by René Descartes, as a book by the philosopher was seen on his bookshelf in 2016. Evidence of Descartes' presenceIn early 2016, Chinese state media released images of Xi's bookshelf.The images showed a work on geometry by the 17th-century French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes.Some analysts speculated that Xi's interest in Descartes may stem from his background in chemical engineering.While the presence of the book suggests familiarity with Descartes, some online observers wondered if the books were placed there for propaganda purposes.
>>24740148Didn’t read>rapes you
Lmao he's not even in charge at the moment
>>24740148The problem with Asians is their mathematization of everything, which is equally found in neo-positivism of the Vienna Circle and Marxism alike. Unfortunately real life does not follow predictive patterns, which is why everyone ranging from fans of late Marx, Behavorists and Randian objectivists are obsessed with dehumanization, regardless if its the working poor, humans in general or people who like owning their own property. None of it can end well. At least folks like Emmanuel Mournier were on the right track.
>>24740228You will regret this.
>>24740232>propaganda purposes>Rene Descartes
>>24740252I am Xi Jinping and I am in charge.
>>24740148This feels like a very legalist thing to say in the context of Chinese politics. Different perspectives of philosophy don’t matter, because the effects of governance matter most. Therefore, objective reality must always be consistent with our political plans and proclemations.Am I making a good observation here? It feels like he’s not even saying anything specifically Marxist here, but moreso Chinese.
>>24740252Then who is?
>>24740264They are outperforming the US in just about every standard of well being except civil liberties and honestly i dont think those are looking too great in the US anymore either.
>>24740331My understanding is along similar lines. I think that he is blaming the Chinese tradition in metaphysics for the fact that China historically never gained a foundation in science, which contributed to their technological stagnation versus the West.
>>24740393Things are not going that well there now, they're experiencing a situation that the rest of the Western world got after the 2008 financial crisis with a housing market crash and the resulting shock to the credit system. It's not that different. There's also an insane wealth gap and an economy dominated by monopolistic corporations.
>>24740393Im just racist. I distrust anyone with slanted eyes.
>>24740455I think people such as the anon you're responding to just have a fetish of some kind.
>>24740148Xi is just a Chinese bugman who has been mentally colonized by the western enlightenment and is just regurgitating its demonic modern zeitgeist, while wanting to lengthen his life with organ harvesting.This is exactly why China is the top long-term threat and is why the west must grow a pair of balls, purge corruption, and roll back the clock on modernity. Otherwise, China is going to unironically take over the planet and is going to have zero ethical or spiritual foundation to go with it, it'll be ethnic han Chinese world domination at best, AI/Post-human totalitarian universal imperium at worse.
>>24740148How wise of a contemporary politician to speak of such a subject to begin with.
>>24740148>materialismbas->dialectical ...
>>24740340Bo Xilai is coming back from his long exile.
>>24740548As Marx and the young hegelians found out, it's great for rhetoric and "winning debates".Too bad you also become an empty soulless husk who is unable to do anything but parrot lies nonstop and hope that a critical mass of people are cynical enough to believe you in return.
>>24740596You sound Eastern European.
>>24740599I was born in view of the Pacific Ocean.
>>24740211Better than Obama's lists.
>>24740601You can just say you are from Petropavlovsk lil bro.
>>24740609Nah I'm good.
>>24740148>metaphysics is bullshitTrue>materialistic dialectics is differentFalsemuh dialectics is just unfalsifiable bullshit word games. You'd have to be some kind of retard to take that shit seriously.
>>24740451He is talking about the present not the past
>>24740509Ah yes the spiritual West must destroy the materialist East..You are literally ruled by a bunch of war-profiteering psychopatic ghouls, you produce immensely more suffering and harm than China with your forever wars and forever war crimes just to make Raytheon line go up. Shut the fuck up
>>24741376Did you miss the part about>purge corruption, and roll back the clock on modernityyou illiterate retard? What do you think that entails?
>>24741384Just stop it, you ignoramus.
>>24741451NTA but No
>>24740455We already have all that here but at least their government provides upward mobility and makes their people richer. With none of this democratic bullshit gunging up the government.
>>24740148>people can talk as much nonsense as they likethank you based xi for the permission.
>>24740340Hu is.
>>24740148>inb4 define objective reality>I reject metaphysics while making tons of metaphysical claims and presupposing its truth, but lemme cook for a minute I'm good. It's like reading those moral relativists who say what we should (read: ought to) pursue is economic progress or stability or some other arbitrary nonsense.
>>24741384You can't ''purge corruption'' because political corruption is legal in the US, it's systemic; you will always have politicians bribed by war profiteers to create endless war for profit
