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As is tradition, at around this time of year, we discuss the latest developments in the communist plan to destroy Christmas and everything festive and jolly - including that bastard kulak Santa Claus. Down with holly and myrrh, and up with historical materialism!
This year, I'm highlighting the economic trend of de-Decemberization, as the world struggles to break free from the seasonal hegemony imposed by the North Pole. Some regard it as a rather overhyped phenomenon, stating that the chains of Christmas are too frozen for any country to thaw and break in the current environment. Others are more optimistic, and assert that perhaps an alternative world holiday could be established to outright replace it, or maybe a series of smaller holiday traditions can bring it down like a pack of wolves bringing down a moose.
To return to seriousness, as this year draws to a close, I hope everybody here - yes, also you, the person reading this - has a 2026 that was better than 2025, and that the efforts of the United States and their proxies are foiled at every turn. One day, humans will live in a world free from empires, and it would be nice if as many of us as possible lived to see that world's birth.
At the very least, I'd like to live to see an aircraft carrier sink beneath the waves.
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Random question but does anybody know how the communist party of burma is doing?
I read Thant Myint-Yu's book and he said that the party, despite being supported by millions at one point, eventually imploded after losing chinese support and a bunch of military positions. Then a bunch of communist army generals started getting into the drug business, and when the party leaders (mostly older left-wing intelectuals) told them to quit it they revolted against the party and went independent, joining ethnic militias and such, so the party fled to china.
But after the coup in 2021 there were news about it reforming? Probably only symbolically I assume, idk if there's any connection to the old one.
I follow the Burmese People's Liberation Army's Telegram. They're the armed wing of the CPB and seem very real and active. They're capturing villages, waging drone warfare, etc. They shot down a fighter jet in June. They seem to get equipment support from China even though China also supplies the junta the PLA is fighting.
but really, what's going on here? is supporting both sides a deliberate strategy or is something funny going on?
China's relationships with the civil war in Myanmar are too complex for me to even begin to unpack. They are full supporters of the de facto sovereign United Wa State, a breakway republic within Myanmar in the border region. I think China's support for the junta emerges from that relationship, which long predates the current civil war. The UWS emerged after the CPB fell apart in the 80s and sort of carries on a Leninist tradition in the Chinese fashion. Today it has a mostly cooperative relationship with the Tatmadaw (the junta). China sees preserving the Wa State and general stability in Myanmar as its primary objectives, given the problems a civil war on your borders can cause. I think they see the Tatmadaw as the fastest solution to ending the civil war regardless of the fact that they're terrible bastards. However, that UWS - Tatmadaw relationship is not all positive, and the UWS is allied with other rebel factions that grew out of the old CPB - all of which China at least initially maintained positive relationships with, including the in-exile leadership who hung out in China for decades. Now, with the civil war breaking out, China allowed the remaining CPB to return to Myanmar and re-engage in fighting against the Tatmadaw.
I think
actually does explain a lot of their policy. China would be happy to see a multinational socialist revolutionary government take control of Myanmar, with the UWS at its head and other CPB-descended factions leading the coalition alongside it in an essentially "Socialism with Burmese Characteristics" model. This is the UWS's preferred outcome and that has a lot of sway with the PRC. But most of those ethnic militaries want full independence (the UWS does not). China isn't interested in seeing Myanmar break apart into a bunch of vulnerable republics the west could use to plant forces. So, if the Tatmadaw wins and reigns everyone in, at least the UWS is still there, safeguarding Chinese investment and infrastructure, and retaining a unitary state that China has positive relationships with. They're doing whatever they can to avoid the worst case scenario of a full state dissolution, even if it's for a bunch of cool left wing ethnic republics. That shit never lasts under Cold War conditions.
@seaposting@hexbear.net could probably give much better info than me and I totally could have gotten some of the details wrong
I’m not too knowledgeable either, but from what I have read and seen, you’re assessment wrt external powers seems about right, especially with neighbouring regions bordering China. There’s some rabble-rousing about Chinese and Western interference for certain factions in the war from some NGOs but I think generally you’re assessment that China prefers a unified state over splitting is accurate, and it’s probably safe to assume that China would prefer some level of peace, unification and stability for it’s bordering countries, unlike that of the Western imperialists.
I also know that Burma is the preferred name among communists over there, since the name-change to Myanmar was mostly carried out unilaterally by the junta.
Ok, I wasn't sure if there a reason to use one or the other. Thank you!