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Here's the section on sex liberation. I just read it and made some highlights. He quotes Marcuse and seems to agree that looser ideas about sex is an inevitable result of material development of society, but seems to disagree with him about sex liberation taking on political dimensions that could liberate people from capitalism. I'd say it's a pretty objective look at the sex issue in the U.S., and he doesn't really come down on the "right" or "left" as Americans would understand it. He seems to suggest that both have problems, that sex liberation in the U.S. contains both "the best and the worst," and the embrace of extreme sexual liberation in the U.S. is really just the extreme opposite of the former period of extreme sexual repression -- you don't get one without the other (unity of opposites).

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>China economically liberalized but destroyed attempts at political liberalization or attempts to make china socially left.
What do you mean by "socially left?" China is not an Islamic country. In an American context, I can see that though. But I'm not sure the "social left / right" as westerners understand it even translates over there so simply. It seems like the kind of country where the cultural norms would give everyone in the American spectrum something to get pissed off about. For example, I think women's workforce participation is higher than in the United States (including in construction). The T.V. culture is conservative but gay people have apps to hook up with and the government doesn't care. It's just different. It seems kinda "moderate."

https://youtu.be/snItPkBxgSM?t=658

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