Summary
China has intensified its crackdown on erotic fiction writers, particularly those creating danmei (gay romance/erotica), with over 50 arrests in Anhui province since June 2024.
At least 10 individuals have been sentenced, with penalties reaching up to 4.5 years in prison. Many writers published on Taiwan-based Haitang Literature, which has faced disruption.
Under China’s strict laws, earning over 250,000 yuan (~$34,500) from such works can result in a life sentence, though reduced sentences are possible if profits are repaid.
Critics argue the campaign undermines freedom of expression and inflates sales figures to justify harsh punishments.
No, tankies do that themselves. I make the distinction that we’re not all like them, and that communism isn’t just tankiesm. This argument is fundamentally evil, the notion that I shouldn’t perform self-critique because i might find legitimate flaws is an incredibly terrible take.
I do wonder. They are others, they don’t just have questionable views, they have horrible ones, like the notion that people should be jailed for writing erotica. There’s a reason the anarchist-leninist schism happened, leninists/maoists seem to just want objectively horrible things and control over everything. Do you actually think that will reach people? No. We need to self-criticize, we need to change, not all of our views are deserving of merit. We must use self-criticism to get better, and then, and only then, will we actually reach people in a sensible way.
Furthermore, do you think I don’t read these good faith discussions on my own? How do you think i’m creating a steel-man exactly without engaging in this exactly?
Show me an example of a misconception I hold. They would easily be able to do that.
Criticizing a group is justification for purges… This is exactly why the movement needs self-criticism. If all you can say for why i’m a lib is that i criticize things, then you’re the one who has lost sight of the movement, not me. Communists need to improve our theories, if our theories are above question, then we’ve lost the plot.
Objectively nonsense. Do you believe steelman arguments don’t exist? Steelman arguments are constructed in a way where the party being steelmanned can simply say it isn’t a steelman because of X and then you try again… strawmen are deliberate misunderstandings. These have nothing in common other than you say so.
Self-critique is exactly where theory comes from, y’know. Your opposition to it is actually hilarious, as a communist, self-critique should be the most valuable thing in the world, it’s where communist ideology comes from itself.
Sorry but that was a bunch of angry nonsense and you’ve convinced me that you in fact don’t know what you’re talking about, you only help the libs when you do this stuff. Stuff like this makes us look awful. Literally nobody is going to become a communist if you say communism is above critique and any critique we do on the movement makes you a lib. People like you prevent people from seeing the truth in communism.
Communists self-critical all the time. I encourage you tk actually go on hexbear and read their struggle sessions. They are constantly arguing about what foreign countries should do and not do, even the communist ones, like China. They critically support it because of its resistance to US imperialism, they don’t automatically think everything they do is good. That is the definition of “critical support”, a thing no one in lemmy.world seems to understand.
I think you actually need to talk to communists instead of libs before you make this document. You need to engage them in real conversation. You’re just going off propaganda news articles and third party hearsay. There aren’t any actual tankies in this thread so you’re not getting any first-hand information.
It sounds like you’re using self-crit as an excuse to recycle and peddle lib propaganda and nonsense. Meanwhile, the US is on the verge of fascism. You’re looking for reasons to make people not be communists rather than finding out why people should be.