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this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2023
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Fully sourced means my statements were sourced, not that it was dripping in sources.
Also, the book I cited is not propaganda. Please don't resort to calling everything that posits an alternate view propaganda.
From the Springer page on the book,
So he has a degree in and is a professor in the exact subject he's talking about, from a respected University:
Moreover, it's not some random publisher or some guy's PDF on the internet. It's published by Springer which, if you have done any academic reading in almost any field, you will know that Springer content is high-quality and trustworthy. In fact, at a lot of the university libraries I've been in, some subjects (maths, especially) are probably three-quarters Springer publications,
Yep, a professor of Marxism in a state-run Chinese university, definitely sounds very neutral. /s
Springer is an academic publisher, but that doesn't mean they agree with the viewpoints of every niche humanities publication in their catalogue. It's sort of like how Penguin offers both Das Kapital and Mein Kampf (with a disclaimer that I'm not calling anyone a Nazi).
Even when propaganda is true it's propaganda. Leftists are usually pretty good about acknowledging that, even.