Azarova [they/them]

I’ve haven’t finished it yet but I’ve been working my way through The East is Still Red: Chinese Socialism in the 21st Century by Carlos Martinez. It doesn’t satisfy your latter condition, but so far I’ve found it to be a good broad overview of the PRC and it goes on to argue that China remains socialist contrary to some Western misconceptions that China abandoned socialism with the Deng Xiaoping reforms. I guess I’d liken it to Blackshirts & Reds in that it’s an introduction to what Actually Existing (Chinese) Socialism is like and how it developed. It’s available on the Internet Archive here: https://archive.org/details/the-east-is-still-red-chinese-socialism-in-the-21st-century

Because for people in the imperial core, AI slop invading every part of the internet and making it viscerally worse is more visible and tangible than imperialism destroying lives and the environment (mostly) abroad.

hahahahahahahaha that leaves what, like a handful of dudes from a bunch of minor european countries?