• WldFyre@lemm.ee
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    i.e. taking uncritical moral positions and then denouncing any deviation

    What the Party decides is what the membership must respect and uphold.

    Hmmm

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      It’s strategic, not moral. The Communist Party of China has 99 million members. Without democratic centralism it would just be a big club of communism fans, not a Party.

      Once there’s an agreed upon decision, every Party member must uphold it for the strategic advancement of the Party agenda.

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        You honestly think citizens should be publicly punished and shamed for purely strategic reasons? I somehow don’t believe that.

        every Party member must uphold it

        Sounds like a moral imperative to me tbh

        But honestly this is just more examples of trying to weasel out of hypocritical positions like evangelical Christians do. Change some words around and act like it’s a different thing even though the real world effect is the same, which is funny for a group that claims to deal in material conditions.

        “I don’t HATE you, I just think you deserve to go to Hell.”

        “We don’t denounce deviation because deviating is immoral, we denounce it because it would be bad game theory not to.”