Dengism

This article is about the informal designation used online. For the theory of the Communist Party of China, see Socialism with Chinese Characteristics.

Image used by r/GenZedong, a major, entirely online, self-declared "Dengist" community.

Dengism is a largely online^{[tendency-based slant]} political tendency which expresses critical or uncritical support for the People's Republic of China, as well as a label for the ideological strain which supports this position. Dengism is named for Deng Xiaoping and derives some of its ideological positions from his writings. Use of the term from either supporters or critics is not common outside of internet spaces, and the concept may have originated on the internet. Dengism is controversial due to its direct connection to the heated debate over China. Dengism bears relation to Deng Xiaoping Theory and Xi Jinping Thought but is often associated much more with foreign supporters of the ideology of the Communist Party of China (particularly Westerners).

Notable Dengist spaces

Subreddits

• r/GenZedong — a play on "Gen Z" and Mao Zedong. Quarantined by Reddit for "a high volume of information not supported by credible sources"
• r/InformedTankie
• r/asktankies — affiliated with GenZedong

Lemmy instances

• lemmygrad.ml — a web forum with archives for the subreddits above. Most users are from r/GenZedong.
• hexbear.net — a web forum which, in theory, is "left-unity", but is largely Dengist.

Media outlets

• redsails.org — contains third-worldist and Chinese nationalist material.

Criticism

Critics accuse Dengists of supporting social-imperialism, class collaborationism, or even chauvinism against Westerners and others.

Comparison to other ideologies

Dengists have been compared to patriotic socialism in the sense that they may be supportive of "AES" countries and the Russian Federation; they both uphold private ownership of the means of production even into socialism; they both view national struggle as more dominate to class struggle, and so forth.

See also

• Nikita Khrushchev
• Brezhnev Doctrine
• Maoism–Third Worldism
• Nikolai Bukharin
• Actually existing socialism
• People's Republic of China