Thread:Comrade Raining/@comment-44008219-20200207164008/@comment-38073745-20200209032336

From all of other options, Mahathir and his center left alliance is inside Malaysian bourgeois political system is the best, I say this not liking him, who I consider a negative populist. But cultivating relations with China and Russia is important in the current geopolitical order, if China surpass the USA as world's greatest economy we can see more Bolivarian style revolutions around the oppressed countries by the former American order.

And now with China as the leadership the bourgeois structures can be broken and the international imperialist pressure too. Therefore countries won’t need to all the time follow the liberal imposed view of democracy and be limited to “democratic socialists” and reformist bourgeois bureaucrats. Plus another thing is that the USA if finally collapsed as an economic entity, won’t be interfering in other countries issues.

My family is also originally from Malaysia, Selangor and Johor (in fact they are originally from Guangdong in China but they migrated to Malaysia in the 19th century). From the mother side they used to work in rubber plantations and father side with mineral resources, both were equally exploited, miserable wages and violence were part of their work life. As such they were involved in anti-British activity with ethnic Malays and Indians. So much so that later, my father was taken care by the family of a Malay comrade who was killed by the British, they took refugee in Singapore and moved away from politics, my father stayed with them till the age of ten because my grandmother feared authorities could kidnap him because of the historic of political persecutions against them. Some of my aunts were forced into prostitution after the Japanese came and my grandmother was almost killed by the British during the 40s insurgency in which their house was burned. It’s difficult to talk about that, there are even worse and nasty things that happened this time.

They took refuge in Singapore but life continued a hell, my grandfather was arrested and tortured more than once by the British for his involvement with independence movements. Even after the independence he continued being harassed by Lee Kuan Yew's dictatorship.

I grew as a lower middle class Singaporean thanks for the hard work of both my parents, my mother doing third party jobs and my father worked as an engineer for a company. You know, that’s not just my story, it’s the story of many Chinese Singaporeans and Chinese Malaysians. Hard stories of a muffled cry for freedom, of continuous oppression, that today is being alienated by a miserable first worldist neoliberal force. Most Malaysian Chinese I talk seem to simply forget about the struggle for liberty they had to face in the past and seem to be proudly assimilated into neo colonialism, this hurts my soul, deeply.