And it's kind of condescending that the American filmmakers didn't realize that what they were doing was far-right fascist propaganda because they could only see it through a Western lens, "Those poor oppressed Japanese who've had their ancient cultural traditions diluted"
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Anyway the attitude exemplified by that essay kind of demonstrates the bridge by which the CCP transitioned from the absurdly ideology-obsessed era of the Cultural Revolution to the kind of ideologically apathetic ordinary fascism they're dealing in now
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Any accusation that anything they're doing isn't actually very leftist gets hit with the universal rejoinder "You just want China to be WEAK and POOR, you want the country to FALL APART like it was in the era of the Warring States when Confucius was moralizing"
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