“Tienanmen Square was a horrible tragedy and China/ Communism is the evilest thing in the world”
is already a centrist position in the US. It’s not extreme, it’s mainstream.
“Nothing interesting happened with Tienanmen Square and the West/ Capitalism is the evilest thing in the world”
is a straw man and not a position many people hold.
So no, the truth is not in the middle of those two things. China doesn’t hold that nothing interesting happened. China doesn’t even hold that capitalism is the most evil thing. Individuals on the internet may play fast and loose with moralizing, but it’s not about capitalism being evil. It’s about it being exploitive and abstracted slavery. People don’t engage in slavery to be mean, or because evil has possessed them, they do it because they materially benefit from it.
is already a centrist position in the US. It’s not extreme, it’s mainstream.
is a straw man and not a position many people hold.
So no, the truth is not in the middle of those two things. China doesn’t hold that nothing interesting happened. China doesn’t even hold that capitalism is the most evil thing. Individuals on the internet may play fast and loose with moralizing, but it’s not about capitalism being evil. It’s about it being exploitive and abstracted slavery. People don’t engage in slavery to be mean, or because evil has possessed them, they do it because they materially benefit from it.