@tastefullysaucy Also even if viruses are originating there, it's because of China's role within the global productive system, not some kind inherent cultural, etc fact about China/Chinese people. (which is often an unspoke correlary of these China scare ideas)
@nise_yoshimi I think it's challenging the idea of feudalism as a totalizing system based upon the perpetual expansion of a particular social form, akin to capitalism. If you get beyond semantic fiddling, it's an important theoretical point with implications for social/historical theory
@tobitac Seems like the sequence is: not enough middle class people use x public resource, therefore it lacks political support. Lack of usage must stem from undesirable features which are caused by undesirable people. Solution is to eliminate those undesirable people.