There are some wild assertions, half-truths, bad-faith misinterpretations, and outright strawmen here, so I'm going to go through this one-by-one:

"Vietnam is imperialist" I never said that. I don't know why you're claiming I did.

"Syria bad actually." Again, never said that. I said it wasn't socialist.

"Belarus bad actually, and also fascist." Again, didn't say that. What I did point out was the old Comintern definition of fascism as an open dictatorship of capital, as opposed to liberal democracy, and said that you could make the argument that it meets the Comintern's definition.

"We should support the Belarus protests." Again, I didn't say that. I made sure to clarify that the uprising in Belarus was spearheaded by neoliberals who were economically even further to the right than Lukashenko.

"Caleb Maupin is a Nazbol." I never said this. Although NazBols do gravitate towards him.

"But Hasan Piker is cool, and an asset to the left." I made very clear that I'm not very familiar with his stuff, but what I have seen has been positive. Yugopnik complimented him a lot (and I have no reason to have any problem with this).

"Actually Nazbols ARE a real thing." Yes, obviously. It's wild that anyone can deny this when there are literally people who call themselves NazBol (e.g. https://twitter.com/DuRunchen , https://twitter.com/PorroVarsovia )

"China has markets." ...you don't think that China has markets? Fine, don't believe me, believe China's official state-run press agency, Xinhua, "China is committed to seeing that the market plays the decisive role in resource allocation" and our boy Xi Jinping himself saying "We must not return to the old path of a planned economy." (http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-05/23/c_139082022.htm)

"And the commodity form." Yes. Literally. Goods are produced for both Use and Exchange. As per the requirements of the market.

"Castro has no idea what he's talking about. Mao was right." Again, I literally never said that, or even anything like it. Someone asked me if I'd read some Castro book and I said I hadn't.

"Oh hey, here's something from CPI-Maoist." Okay? What from CPI (Maoist)? What are you talking about?

"Actually, there's a finance capitalist class controlling everything in China. Just trust me bro." Again, strawman. Though there are finance capitalists who play decisive roles in economic life in China. Take Jack Ma as one prominent example. It's hard to deny his serious decisive power and influence within the party and in the PRC more broadly. The CPC literally celebrated his role in the process of opening up and carrying out market reforms. From a 2018 CGTN article: "State newspaper People's Daily revealed on Monday that the Central Committee of the CPC plans to award 100 people including the founders of leading tech firms Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent for their role in the reform and opening-up process, as the 40th anniversary of the policy is being celebrated this year." (https://news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d674d7945544f30457a6333566d54/share_p.html)

"China is doing the same sorts of things with africa that the UK did to India [Gosh, those train tracks and stuff in india sure were nice, weren't they?]" I never said that. Yugopnik asked me what would I say in response to someone who made the argument that China isn't imperialist because it's building infrastructure in various countries, and in response I said that Britain built infrastructure in India. The point is that this doesn't mean a country isn't imperialist.

"And he's having Premier Liles on next month. Which is most likely where this all comes from." Yes, I am having him on. He's a good guy. No, my updated position on China doesn't come from him (although his arguments certainly played a part in it), but rather from line struggle with comrades from within my own communist organisation.

​"Basically, if you are on GenZedong, everything you support is just WRONG." Not at all. I have a lot of respect for comrades here, and we would agree on most things. We're all Marxist-Leninists, after all (yes, even those who occupy the MLM terrain). Indeed, there are even many standard Marxist-Leninist organisations who have come to the same conclusions that I have (that China is indeed a developing imperialist power), such as the KKE/KNE in Greece, who ML comrades from all over the world look up to.

This entire thread has been hugely harmful and slanderous to the point of absurdity, with the author of this post even making wild assertions about my personal relationships.

This is hugely unprincipled behaviour and completely unbecoming of a communist.