China is not best understood as a communist country, or as fascist. China is modernist. Many western countries were modernist between 1920 and 1960. Now they are postmodernist. Modernists believe that sociology is a field of engineering, postmodernists think it's a moral opinion.
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Replying to @Plinz
Aren't human rights a product of modernity? The "universality" of all humanity? Aren't post-modernists hard critics of "universality"?
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Replying to @CSchibboleth
I think that human rights are a product of the enlightenment, as a synthesis of pax romana, Christian humanism, and anti-religious secularization. This modernity is not the same as modernism. Modernism understands the idea of human rights as a means, not as an end.
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I think that postmodernist societies have mostly forgotten about the brutal steps that had to be taken to create peace and prosperity. Every peaceful civilization lies in the shadow of a death star.
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I agree to that. Maybe not only to create but also to maintain.
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Tiananmen style massacres are horrible and very rare now. During the founding of the US and the formation of European countries they were frequent.
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