"Yeah guys, the peasant communists who ended slavery in the mainland were definitely the Chinese equivalent of the American Confederacy." - American 'anti-capitalist'.

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[–] Krem@hexbear.net 19 points 5 days ago (2 children)

No see, this analogy makes sense because A: The GMD is the older, more established party (uh by a decade or two), and B: the CPC rose up in rebellion against the former (uh, hm, after their leaders started getting arrested and hanged, and their members killed, and their peasant support base also started getting killed) so yeah since the Communists started the civil war it makes sense

[–] newacctidk@hexbear.net 6 points 5 days ago

Honestly their leaders didn't get hanged as often as beheaded. The pictures from the Shanghai uprising are horrific.

[–] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

So the CPC fought for slavery?

[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I think @Krem@hexbear.net was being sarcastic.

[–] godisidog@hexbear.net 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

No? Analogies don’t have to be perfect to be useful.

[–] Krem@hexbear.net 2 points 4 days ago

I'd say there's no perfect analogy where you compare the sides in the Chinese civil war vs. the American one. The ROC was barely a functioning nation when the civil war broke out and never really unified the country completely. There was never a clean split where some provinces sided with either party. The People's republic was proclaimed in 1949 when the civil war war pretty much finished, and the ROC government moved to taipei soon after. As an analogy, the american civil war is just not very useful, and that's not even getting into stuff like which side wanted to keep slavery or landlord rule going.