What really distinguishes the Chinese production of Communism from...
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Mar 22, 2025
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What really distinguishes the Chinese production of Communism from the Soviet failure was the radicalization of contradiction— which makes it appear “more hypocritical” to the dogmatics, the whole “so Deng just did a Capitalism & called it Socialism” rejoinder is this.
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Contradictions seem to be most taken for granted in the Chinese philosophical tradition, from Taoism, in which the radicalization of paradox is the method of discovering Truth. “Chinese rationalism” has a kernel of this foundational paradoxy— while western rationalism defines consistency as the flattening over of paradox, the search for “fundamental particles”
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Do nothing, win. This is a contradiction, but it is true, so does the truth contradict itself? Only occasionally, in temporal circumstance, but in eternity, all contradiction is reconciled.
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It is almost an incoherent position in the West to be “consistently contradictory”— it literally drives the western ego into hysterics to be faced with consistent contradiction— to answer “yes & no” to all questions— wittgenstein noted in this way that all of the grecohellenic tradition emerges from an attempt to rationalize & make consistent the language which reflects upon the real, his “anti-philosophy” is therapeutic taoism— “yes & no”— to come to terms with this is to transcend aporia, & reach the state of realized ataraxia, to “understand misunderstanding”
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That is, what is self-evidently true in its consistent contradiction of doubt, is to the western mind “perfect nonsense.” Yes & No.
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In a sense, Russia is closer today to communism than ever the USSR was— as the dissolution of the USSR was its “Dengist moment” of radicalizing contradiction even further than “the communist orthodoxy” allowed.
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Jesus tried to teach this method of infinitely consistent contradiction but not even his apostles understood it, & this contradiction itself propelled its own realization & clarification through the continual radicalization of paradox— yes & no, the wheat & the tares.
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Marx in the same way was even in his own lifetime misunderstood by his apostles— in fact it is this very “contradictory mixture of irony & sincerity” which is the consistent contradiction.
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The Taoist koan, for instance, is sincere & ironic.
When you can do nothing, what can you do?
When the many are reduced to one, to what is the one reduced?
What is the colour of wind?
A monk asked Master Haryo, “What is the way?” Haryo said, “An open-eyed man falling into the well.”
When you can do nothing, what can you do?
When the many are reduced to one, to what is the one reduced?
What is the colour of wind?
A monk asked Master Haryo, “What is the way?” Haryo said, “An open-eyed man falling into the well.”
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Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear?
-Lao Tzu
-Lao Tzu
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“The universality or absoluteness of contradiction has a twofold meaning. One is that contradiction exists in the process of development of all things, and the other is that in the process of development of each thing a movement of opposites exists from beginning to end.” -Mao