FWIW, as someone who knows next to nothing about Chinese political theory, this sounds to me like the Party trying to come to grips with postmodernity, failing, and disintegrating into conceptual incoherence. Well worth reading:https://twitter.com/palladiummag/status/1134562646483537920 …
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Instead he’s groping for a system that would somehow be all things at once, even though this seems to contradict itself repeatedly within each sentence. That is precisely what systematicity/modernity/rationalism cannot do.pic.twitter.com/1PTBiGxyDd
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These constant contradictions are characteristic of “the atomized mode,” which the West plunged into ~15 years ago. China is open enough that perhaps it cannot escape the same inexorable logic of conceptual diversity leading to dysfunctional incoherence.https://meaningness.com/atomized-mode
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Alternatively, I might be too ignorant of political theory to understand the perfectly plain sense Xi is making here.pic.twitter.com/i12hjpUk8w
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